PARIS: Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands recorded their highest ever temperatures as a European heatwave soared towards its peak on Wednesday ...
PARIS: Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands recorded their highest ever temperatures as a European heatwave soared towards its peak on Wednesday , impacting rail transport and prompting a number of drownings with people taking to the water.
"It's too much for us," said Sven Schenk, 29, a logistics worker from Germany who was visiting Paris."We're not looking forward to tomorrow! But we haven't changed our plans."Britain's Met Office predicted a chance that the UK temperature record of 38.5 degrees Celsius, which was recorded in Faversham, Kent, in August 2004, will also be exceeded on Thursday at the peak of the heat.
France's weather office said the scorching conditions"require particular care, notably for vulnerable or exposed people" with almost the entire country under an orange-level weather alert, the second highest level. Local authorities have placed restrictions on water usage in many areas due to drought-like conditions that have seen ground and river water levels fall dramatically.This summer's second heatwave has amplified concerns in Europe that human activity is heating the planet at a dangerous rate.
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