Record-breaking temperatures are leaving their mark across Europe.
As England bakes under record-breaking heat, a surge in wildfires has led the London Fire Brigade to declare the blazes a"major incident" in the nation's capital, where temperatures recently exceeded 104 degrees Fahrenheit for the very first time.
Since last week, hundreds of wildfires have been reported across mainland Europe and England, as the continent reels under a blistering heat wave. Temperatures across the normally temperate United Kingdom have risen above those typically recorded in equatorial locations such as Jamaica, the Maldives and Barbados, according to the U.K. Meteorological Office. At Heathrow Airport on Tuesday at 12:50 p.m. local time, the U.K.
Extreme heat is also scorching much of Europe, where the European Union's satellite program Copernicus observed that more than 154 square miles of land in France, Spain and Portugal was set ablaze in the last 10 days. —In photos: Devastating wildfires in CaliforniaWeather patterns are likely to become even more extreme and unpredictable as Earth warms due to climate change.
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