109 in Paris?!?! Europe melts under Sahara heat wave, smashes heat records
by ANGELA CHARLTON and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER
Associated PressThursday, July 25th 2019
Temperature records that had stood for decades or even just days fell minute by minute Thursday afternoon and Europeans and tourists alike threw themselves into fountains, lakes, rivers or the sea to escape a suffocating heat wave rising up from the Sahara. ...
"There is likely the DNA of climate change in the record-breaking heat that Europe and other parts of the world are experiencing. And it is unfortunately going to continue to worsen," said Marshall Shepherd, professor of meteorology at University of Georgia. Climate scientists warn this could become the new normal in many parts of the world but it looms as a giant challenge for temperate Europe.
The sheer levels of heat on Thursday afternoon were nothing short of astonishing:
— The Paris area hit 42.6 degrees Celsius (108.7 degrees Fahrenheit), beating the previous record of 40.4 C (104.7 F) set in 1947.
— The Netherlands' meteorological institute announced a record that beat the previous record set just a day ago: 40.4 C (104.7 F) Thursday in the municipality of Gilze Rijen, near the border with Belgium.
— In Belgium, the new all-time high rose to 40.6 C (105.1 F) in Kleine Brogel. "This is the highest recorded temperature for Belgium in history since the beginning of the measurements in 1833," said Alex Dewalque of the country's Royal Meteorological Institute.
— In the northern German town of Lingen, a new national record temperature of 42 C (107.6 F) was set in the afternoon, breaching the previous high set just minutes earlier. It was not clear how long that record would last. A day earlier, Germany had also set a record of 40.5 C (104.9 F) in Geilenkirchen near the Belgian border.
— London recorded its hottest day on record for July, with the mercury climbing to 36.9 C (98.4 F) at Heathrow Airport. The previous July record was 36.7 C (98 F) in 2015.
— Britain was waiting to see if temperatures blow by the all-time record for the country of 38.5 C (101.3 F) set back in August 2003. Britain's Met Office said its temperature records go back to 1865.
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