Europe heat wave 2022: UK records highest temperature in history

Europe is wilting under extreme temperatures.

At least one thousand, seven hundred people have died from heat-related conditions in July, 2022.

Seville, Spain, has had a temperature of 41 °C (106 °F).

Suffolk, eastern England, had its third-hottest day on record on 18 July, 2022 with a temperature of 38.1 degrees Celsius (100.9 degrees Fahrenheit).

The British record is 38.7 °C at Cambridge Botanic Garden in 2019.

Temperatures of over 40°C have been forecast in the UK and the Meteorology Office has issued the first ever red warning.

On 19 July, 2022 the UK hit its hottest temperature on record, with 40.3 °C at Coningsby in Lincolnshire.

Heathrow and St James Park in London were close behind at 40.2 °C.

Brest, on the Atlantic coast of France, recorded 39.3 °C, breaking a previous record of 35.1 °C set in 2002.

Saint-Brieuc had 39.5 °C beating a previous record of 38.1 °C, while Nantes hit 42 °C, breaking a record of 40.3 °C set in 1949.

Germany has high temperatures reaching 39.2 °C (102.6 °F).

The temperature in Dublin, Ireland, was 33.1 °C on 18 July, 2022, the highest since 1887.

In Westdorpe, Netherlands, the temperature was 35.4 °C.

Wild fires are reported in France, Greece, Portugal and Spain fueled by the high temperatures.

 

 

 

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