from IHT:
With Paris, London and Berlin experiencing peak temperatures above those of Bangkok, Hong Kong and New Delhi, Europe's heat wave this summer already has headed for the record books.read more | digg story
The severe and prolonged heat has prompted the authorities across Europe to advise on everything from personal safety to power use.
A 1911 record for the highest July temperature in Britain was broken last week when the village of Wisley in Surrey hit 36.5 degrees Celsius (97.7 Fahrenheit). Mark Vance, an entertainer at Warwick Castle who wears a full suit of armor and was dubbed the man with the hottest job in Britain by The Daily Express, was photographed frying an egg on the breastplate of his outfit.
In the Netherlands, July will probably qualify as the hottest month since temperatures were first measured in 1706, the Dutch meteorological institute, KNMI, said Tuesday.
Many parts of Germany have hit the highest July temperatures since records began to be kept.
The French health minister, Xavier Bertrand, urged Tuesday that medical students and retired doctors volunteer for hospital work as more than half the country was placed under the second- highest level of heat-wave alert.
Most of the 40 heat-related deaths in Europe in the last two weeks were in France, recalling the 2003 heat wave in which 15,000 died.
"The temperatures have not been so high in France as they were in the first weeks of August 2003, but the heat wave has lasted much longer," said Bernard Strauss, head of forecasting for Météo France.
"In the last six weeks we have had one of the longest stretches of higher than normal temperatures since we started records."
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