Record breaking heat in Europe, mercury likely to reach 40 in UK

Western Europe is in the grip of intense heat these days and the continuous rise in temperature is breaking previous heat records.(photo: getty images)

forest fires are also being reported due to the heat wave. In Suffolk, the eastern region of Great Britain, the temperature was recorded at 38.1 degrees Celsius, which was declared the hottest day of the year. and can reach 40 degrees Celsius. 

Experts blame climate change for the whole situation and predict more severe weather in the future. 

The Meteorological Department in France has said that in many cities and towns across the Channel. 

Monday saw the highest temperature ever recorded. Brest, on the Atlantic coast of the French province of Brittany, reached 39.3 degrees Celsius, breaking the record set in 2002 when 35.1 degrees Celsius was recorded. 

It touched 39.5 degrees Celsius breaking the previous record of 38.1 degrees Celsius. Similarly, a 73-year-old heat record was broken in the western French city of Nantes, where the temperature was recorded at 42 degrees Celsius. 

The previous temperature in Nantes, France was 40.3 in 1949. 

Firefighters in southwest France are still battling two massive blazes in the scorching heat. 

A fleet of firefighters and water-bombing planes have been battling the blaze for nearly a week. In Dublin, Ireland. 

A temperature of 33 degrees Celsius was recorded, the highest since 1887, while in the Netherlands, the southern city of West Dorp reached 35.4 degrees Celsius.



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