UK breaks record for highest temperature as Europe sizzles
One scientist says the temperatures in Britain were 'virtually impossible' without human-driven climate change.
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One scientist says the temperatures in Britain were 'virtually impossible' without human-driven climate change.
LONDON -- Britain shattered its record for highest temperature ever registered Tuesday amid a heat wave that has seared swaths of Europe, as the U.K.'s national weather forecaster said such highs are now a fact of life in a country ill-prepared for such extremes.
Britain has shattered its record for the highest temperature ever recorded, with a provisional reading of 40.3 degrees Celsius (104.5 degrees Fahrenheit) in eastern England.
The UK is in the grips of the country's worst heat wave on record, with temperatures possibly reaching into the 100s of degrees fahrenheit.
The UK is in the grips of the country's worst heat wave on record, with temperatures possibly reaching into the 100s of degrees fahrenheit.