“…Over Europe, many of these effects are already ongoing, for example, the expansion of dry conditions (meteorological droughts) in many regions since the late 1980s (Bešťáková et al., 2023), an increasing number of hot days combined with warmer summer conditions (Marvel et al., 2019), and an intensification of heatwaves (Rousi et al., 2022). As we start facing circulation changes in response to increasing CO 2 concentrations and non‐uniform global warming, their contribution to recent and future extremes remains a matter of debate (Belleflamme et al., 2015; de Vries et al., 2022; Faranda, Pascale, & Bulut, 2023; Räisänen, 2019; Terray, 2023).…”