METAIRIE, La. (AP) — Saints reserve guard Dillon Radunz has torn a knee ligament and veteran defense end Cameron Jordan missed practice Sunday because of a hamstring injury, coach Kellen Moore said.
The 28-year-old Radunz left practice Saturday with what has since been diagnosed as a torn anterior cruciate ligament, an injury that normally requires season-ending, reconstructive surgery.
Radunz was entering his sixth NFL season since the Tennessee Titans made him a second-round draft choice in 2021.
He started 10 games for New Orleans last season, after which New Orleans signed him to a two-year extension.
Radunz has now torn an ACL twice, first doing so with the Titans near the end of the 2022 season.
Moore said Jordan's hamstring injury occurred during practice last Thursday.
The Saints had Friday off and Jordan was excused from practice on Saturday to attend former teammate Drew Brees' Pro Football Hall of Fame induction in Canton, Ohio.
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New Orleans Saints defensive end Cameron Jordan reacts during a press conference at the team's NFL football training camp in Metairie, La., Wednesday, July 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton)
FILE - New Orleans Saints offensive lineman Dillon Radunz (77) prepares to walk onto the field before an NFL football game against the Miami Dolphins, on Nov. 30, 2025, in Miami Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Doug Murray, File)
BERLIN (AP) — The heat waves roiling Western Europe this summer toppled an average temperature record for the June-July period set in 2022, according to the European climate agency Copernicus.
The extreme heat began in May and has contributed to major wildfires, prolonged drought and new national temperature records across the region, as well as thousands of projected heat-related deaths.
Globally, so far this is the third-hottest year, behind 2024 and 2025, climate statistics show. But 2026 still has time to catch up. Thanks to the one-two punch of accelerated human-caused global warming and a supersized El Niño, a periodic warming of parts of the Pacific that leads to temperature variations around the globe, there’s an increasing chance that by the end of the year, 2026 could become the hottest year on record, beating out 2024 — or at least come close, scientists said.
Last month saw the highest average sea surface temperature ever recorded for July across the extra-polar oceans, or the oceans free of seasonal sea ice, Copernicus said.
That was partially fueled by developing El Niño conditions in the equatorial Pacific, the service said. The new average record for July is 20.96 degrees Celsius (69.73 degrees Fahrenheit), which beat the 2023 record of 20.89 C (69.60 F).
But last month’s average surface air temperature globally was 16.90°C (62.42 F), making it only the joint second warmest July on record and tied with July 2024, Copernicus reported.
In Western Europe, meanwhile, the average temperature record for the June-July period hit 21.62°C (70.92 F), Copernicus said.
“Persistent high-pressure systems trapped heat over western Europe, the extreme temperatures also amplified widespread drought. As soils dry out, they lose their ability to provide natural cooling, allowing heat to build more readily,” said Samantha Burgess, strategic lead for climate at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.
"This is a clear example of how climate change is intensifying heat extremes, with heat and drought increasingly reinforcing one another.”
A firefighting helicopter releases water over a wildfire near Correns, southeastern France, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2026. (Clement Mahoudeau/Pool Photo via AP)
A pharmacy display shows a temperature of 42 degrees Celsius in Paris during a heat wave, Wednesday, July 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard).
Vehicles cross the Rhine bridge on the A48 highway with a view of the low water levels on the Rhine, near Bendorf, Germany, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2026, (Thomas Frey/dpa via AP)
A man walks on dried grass in a park, amid drought conditions in London, in London, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
People walk on a sandbar underneath the Danube's Margareth Bridge in downtown Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday Aug. 5, 2026, as the river, which runs through 10 European countries, has receded never-before-seen low water levels. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)
