Western Europe is essentially trapped in the weather equivalent of a Dutch oven, a situation that one scientist said has “the fingerprints of climate change all over it”

A “heat dome” is forecast to linger across parts of Europe as the prospects of an El Nino continue to firm.

“What we used to call a July phenomenon is now arriving in mid-May", according to one weather forecaster.

Heat dome over Europe scorches UK, Ireland, France and Spain