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The official European record measured by minimum / maximum thermometers is held by Athens, Greece, which reported a maximum of in 1977.
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Tatoi along with Elefsina currently hold the record for the highest ever recorded temperature in Europe according to WMO, with 48.0 �C, based on measurements made by the use of minimum / maximum thermometers.
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In the 1990s it was decided that mercury-based thermometers were too risky to handle; the vigorous swinging needed to " reset " a mercury maximum thermometer makes it easy to accidentally break it and spill the moderately poisonous mercury.