After southern and central Europe, Ukraine has taken over the baton of extreme heat. In previous years, the maximum air temperatures in Ukraine were observed in the first half of August. Now the record heat has come a month earlier, according to to Natalia Holenia, deputy head of the meteorological forecasting department at the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Center. Maximum temperatures “This is quite unusual for the first half of July, as we have the warmest second half of July, and the highest temperatures were recorded in the first half of August,” she says. As an example, Holenia cites 2010…