Several countries in Europe are coping under a heatdome, with record temperatures and heat warnings issued.France has recorded its hottest day ever on Tuesday, June 23rd, following an exceptional heatwave, the national weather agency said. Spain has issued red alerts for temperatures of 44 degrees in southern Andalusia as well as heat warnings in other regions.Meanwhile in Ireland, a status yellow high temperature warning has been issued by Met Éireann to be in place from noon on Tuesday until Friday morning.People cool off in Dun Laoghaire waters in Co Dublin on June 23rd. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA
Sunbathers at Seapoint in Dun Laoghaire Co Dublin. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
The elephants in Dublin Zoo are sprayed down to keep cool in the hot weather. Photo: Enda O'Dowd/The Irish Times Derek Smyth takes the sun from a deck chair outside his city centre home on Sherriff Street Lower in Dublin. Photo: Bryan O’Brien/The Irish Times A pedestrian uses an umbrella to protect herself from the sun as she walks in the street in Bordeaux, France: Photo: Christophe Archambault/AFP via Getty Images A woman walks front of a school with windows covered with Blanc de Meudon, a type of chalk powder, applyed by student's parents to protect the children from the heat during a heatwave in Nantes, western France. Photo: Sebastien Salom-Gomis/AFP via Getty Images People on Westminster Bridge in London. Photo: Ben Whitley/PA Wire
