Britain’s National Weather Service announced that on Tuesday, the temperature in Britain exceeded 40 degrees for the first time, with 40.2 degrees recorded at Heathrow Airport.
On Tuesday, the fire reached residential areas in the UK county of Kent, where footage showed homes engulfed in flames.
The new level came an hour after Britain surpassed the 2019 record of 38.7 degrees Celsius set in Cambridge, eastern England, and the new rise comes amid a heatwave that has gripped northwestern Europe. occurred
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On Monday, a record high temperature of 40 degrees Celsius was recorded in Europe, and the heat wave ruled the continent for days.
According to Asharq Al-Awsat, Monday was the hottest day in the history of France, as the maximum temperature exceeded 30 degrees Celsius in all regions, while a large part of the country was between 38 and 40 degrees.
The heat wave will reach its peak in the Atlantic front of this continent. This heat wave is expected to be accompanied by unprecedented levels of air pollution with an expected increase in ozone concentrations.
Images have been seen of boats stuck in the mud in Lake Pyrénées, which is fed by the Daubs River in Switzerland and near the French border.
In the town of Carmaniola near Turin, the bottom of the Po River, Italy’s longest river, was seen experiencing its worst drought in 70 years.
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