Inside Europe's historic heatwave: What you should know
Europe is still taking stock of a powerful heatwave in late June but experts are already confident it ranks among the worst ever recorded even rivalling a freak 2003 episode.
Temperature records were rewritten across Europe as hundreds of millions of people withered under extreme heat that closed schools, shut down transport and cost untold lives.
A heat dome trapped hot air from North Africa over the Iberian Peninsula in late June before spreading as far as the United Kingdom, eventually weakening over central and eastern parts of Europe in early July.
As the mercury starts to rise again in Europe, here's what we know so far about the impact of the early summer heatwave:
Memories of 2003
As the June episode intensified, comparisons were quickly made to August 2003, when a heatwave ...
