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‘Full-on summer heat’: western Europe braces for unusually high temperatures
Portugal, Spain, France and UK expected to exceed 30C on Friday and into next week, with new May records predicted
TL;DR
- Western Europe faces its first significant summer heat event, with temperatures expected to be over 10C above normal.
- Portugal, Spain, France, and the UK could see temperatures exceed 30C, with potential for new May records.
- A heat dome trapping hot air from Morocco is causing the exceptional temperatures.
- Climate breakdown is cited as a reason for these increasingly frequent and intense early heat events.
- In Spain, a two-year-old girl died after being left in a car during the high temperatures.