Britain recorded its warmest ever night, ahead of a day when temperatures could hit 40 degrees Celsius (104 F.) It comes as a heat wave scorching Europe wallops a nation more used to mild weather and rain. There are wildfires in Spain, Portugal and France.
Average July temperatures in the U.K. range from a daily high of 21 C to a night-time low of 12 C , and few homes or small businesses have air conditioning.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said Britain’s transport infrastructure, some of it dating from Victorian times, “just wasn’t built to withstand this type of temperature — and it will be many years before we can replace infrastructure with the kind of infrastructure that could.” Climate experts warn that global warming has increased the frequency of extreme weather events, with studies showing that the likelihood of temperatures in the U.K. reaching 40 C is now 10 times higher than in the pre-industrial era. Drought and heat waves tied to climate change have also made wildfires harder to fight.
In the Gironde region of southwestern France, ferocious wildfires continued to spread through tinder-dry pines forests, frustrating firefighting efforts by more than 2,000 firefighters and water-bombing planes.
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