If you were in certain parts of Germany , Belgium or the Netherlands yesterday , you may have experienced temperature that nobody has experienced there in memorialise history . And there ’s good chance it will be hotter today .
In Kleine Brogel , Belgium , temperature hit 39.9 ° C ( 102 ° fluorine ) , marginally higher than the premature national record of38.8 ° C ( 101.8 ° F)set in June 1947 . Belgium has now issued a codification red ink ( the highest ) weather warning for the whole of the country .
Meanwhile in the Netherlands , the Dutch meteorological service , KNMI reported that " Nationaal hitterecord na 75 jaar verbroken " , which even with modified Dutch you may probably guess have in mind that the interior passion record hasbeen broken after 75 years . A newfangled record was set at 38.8 ° C ( 101.8 ° F ) in Gilze - Rijen , North Brabant . It was then smashed again when temperatures in Eindhoven smasher 39.4 ° C ( 102.7 ° F ) afterward the same sidereal day . The previous book was set in August 1944 , at 38.6 ° C ( 101.5F ) . The Netherlands is currently set at code orange .
Meanwhile , in Germany , theGerman Meteorological Service ( DWD ) commemorate their own platter temperature as Geilenkirchen hit 40.5 ° C ( 104.9 ° F ) , higher than their former book of 40.3 ° C ( 104.5 ° F ) set in Kitzingen in July 2015.The unexampled phonograph recording might not last long , however , with temperatures promise to be spicy than that today by the service . Heat alerts have been emerge for the whole country , debar a tiny patch in the North East .
If you were in other country in Europe and consider you ’re missing out on the apocalyptic temperatures , dread not . Today is betoken to see even more record broken across the continent . It is , to quote a British sketch show and apparently also BBC Weather , scorchio .
The UK , which today founder its record forhottest July temperature ever , may see its national temperature record of 38.5 ° speed of light ( 101.3 ° F ) – set in August 2003 – broken too , with temperatures of up to 39 ° C ( 102.2 ° F)forecast in the Confederate States of America . The high temperature already seen in the country have been blame for salvo water supply pipesleaving thousand without water .
In France , which is also expected to see record - breaking highs today , five death have been linked to the heatwave , theBBC Reports . Last calendar month it recorded its highest temperature ever , a sweltering45.9 ° C ( 114.6 ° F ) , declaring a red alert temperature warning for the first meter ever . It isstill on red alerting .
If the heatwave is getting to you , here ’s a confirming spin you may put on the whole situation .
