Europe Heat Wave Keeps Breaking Records Spreading East
A heat wave is hitting central and eastern Europe. Records have been broken in Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Denmark.
Germany and Poland were under extreme heat warnings on Saturday. The record-breaking heat is moving east across the region.
Klear Note — Heat waves are periods of unusually hot weather lasting days or weeks. Europe has experienced more frequent and intense heat waves in recent years.
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- heat wave A long period of very hot and dangerous weather