A dog called Minou stands in the water of the Lustgarten fountain in front of Berlin Cathedral during the historic heatwave that has seen nations across Europe break temperature records for this time of year -- including Germany, which set a record two days in a row. Photo by Clemens Bilan/EPA
June 27 (UPI) -- Europe may have to brace for even broken records as the historic heat wave that has roasted the continent over the last week is unlikely to let up.
Temperatures in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands all set heat records on Friday, and events in both Spain and France were cancelled, while most of central Europe issued the latest in days of warnings about the dangerous temperatures, The BBC and The Washington Post reported.
Although some meteorologists, including those in the United Kingdom, have said that temperatures in some areas will start cooling off, forecasters in Czechia, Austria and some Balkan nations are bracing for their own broken heat records this weekend.
The heat wave, which experts at the World Meteorological Organization have called the worst in Europe since the mid-1970s, reinforces what the organization has called "the world's most rapidly warming continent."
