Temperatures for the start of January have reached an all-time high in a number of countries across Europe.
National records have fallen in eight countries — Netherlands, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Latvia, Czech Republic, Poland, Denmark and Belarus — while regional records were broken in Germany, France and Ukraine.
Warsaw, Poland, saw 18.9C (66F) on Sunday while Bilbao, Spain, was 25.1C — more than 10C above average — the equivalent to the average in July.
