While North America is affected by extremely low temperature values , Europe experienced on Friday 12/23 one of the warmest days of the last at least 150 years for the end of December.
More specifically, according to the meteo of the National Observatory of Athens, the National Meteorological Service of France, Météo-France , published that temperature records were broken for the month of December in 17 meteorological stations with a record history of more than 80 years.
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