Europe's heatwave has smashed several temperature records, the UN's weather and climate agency said Friday, adding that it would determine the full impact once the phenomenon has ended.

Temperatures soared on Tuesday as the summer’s first heatwave scorched Western Europe, breaking record tempratures in various countries.

Punishing temperatures are scorching Europe as it swelters under a fierce heat dome, bringing dangerous conditions to swaths of the fastest-warming continent. Follow for live…

The heatwave would have been "virtually impossible" without human-caused climate change, according to scientists.