Extreme heat causes people to hunker down and just might temper or stop the demonstrations that have gone on across Europe for some time. I don’t remember A/Cs or swamp coolers so there will be a whole lot of fans working full tilt.
What's next: The period from Wednesday through Sunday will feature blistering heat across Spain, Portugal, southern France and Italy, with unusually hot conditions stretching north and eastward into Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.
Numerous daily and monthly temperature records are already falling as the hot air mass, known as a Sahara Plume, sets up shop.
On Wednesday, Poland already set a new June temperature record for the country, as did Germany. A station in Berlin reached 101.5°F, which ranks as Germany's hottest June temperature as well.
France had its hottest June day on record Wednesday, and the country's all-time high temperature for the country of 44.1°C, or 111.4°F, may be within reach.
According to weather.com, other countries that could see monthly high temperature records set include: Austria, the Czech Republic, Luxembourg and Switzerland. Each of these countries' record June high temperatures were set during the past two decades.
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