Record-breaking spring heat wave kills across Europe, shatters century-old temperatures

At least 11 deaths reported including three UK teenagers in drowning incidents, a 60-year-old man in the sea, and seven heat-related deaths in France including five drownings.

In the final days of May, Western Europe was overtaken by a heat dome that had no regard for the calendar — pushing temperatures a full decade of degrees above seasonal norms and shattering records that had endured for over a century. Britain's thermometers reached heights unseen since records began, while France, Spain, and Italy followed in kind, the continent baking under conditions that belong to midsummer, not spring. At least eleven people lost their lives, most of them to water — drawn to rivers, lakes, and seas by heat that arrived before the lifeguards did. Climate scientists see in t

Record-breaking spring heat wave kills across Europe, shatters century-old temperatures

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