Switzerland on course for record-breaking summer

So far, the summer of 2026 has been at least as hot as the record-breaking summer of 2003. The Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, MeteoSwiss, said in response to an enquiry that at some stations the number of hot days has already exceeded that of 2003. "2003 was an extreme outlier," wrote MeteoSwiss on Tuesday in response to an enquiry from the Swiss News Agency Keystone-SDA. Such events are now becoming more likely due to global warming. Nevertheless, the summer of 2026 should also…