Weekend to bring cooldown after record-breaking heatwave

BBC Science Saturday 27 June 2026, 00:21 UTC 1 min read

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The record-breaking heatwave is set to end with cooler and more unsettled weather by Sunday.

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Accumulation on Switzerland’s glaciers from last winter expected to all be gone by Monday amid ‘enormous’ melt rates across AlpsSwiss glaciers are set to lose an enormous amount of ice due to the heatwave battering Europe, according to the head of Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland (Glamos).The snow and ice accumulated last winter by Switzerland’s glaciers is expected to have all melted away by Monday, marking the alarming second-earliest arrival on record of the tipping point known as...

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Weekend to bring cooldown after record-breaking heatwave

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