We had a heat wave last week, now this week there is a heat wave in Europe. This comes after last year was the hottest summer on record in England. CNN said, "The average temperature in England from June to August 2018 was 17.2 degrees Celsius (63 degrees Fahrenheit), beating the previous record set in 1976 by 0.2 degrees."  On Thursday the UK Met Office tweeted this saying they had potentially recorded the highest temperature ever in the UK. 

38.7ºC is 101.66ºF, and Cambridge is at roughly the same latitude as Saskatoon in Saskatchewan, Canada.  The map in the tweet below shows eastern England experienced the higher heat for longer, especially the southeast.

But it wasn't just confined to England. The majority of France was under alerts related to intense heat Thursday, including Paris. The tweet below from BBC Weather also shows that Norway tied its highest temperature record, too! 

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a report earlier this month saying, "the average global temperature in June was 1.71 degrees F above the 20th-century average of 59.9 degrees, making it the hottest June in the 140-year record, according scientists to NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. Nine of the 10 hottest Junes have occurred since 2010. Last month also was the 43rd consecutive June and 414th consecutive month with above-average global temperatures."  They added that, "average Antarctic sea-ice coverage was 8.5% below the 1981-2010 average – the smallest on record for June."  The image below is part of the report from NOAA.

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