AP-YonhapBritain shattered its record for highest temperature ever registered Tuesday amid a heat wave that has seized swaths of Europe ― and the national weather forecaster predicted it would get hotter still in a country ill prepared for such extremes. The U.K. Met Office registered a provisional reading of 40.2 degrees Celsius at Heathrow Airport ― breaking the record set just an hour earlier. Before Tuesday, the highest temperature recorded in Britain was 38.7 degrees Celsius, a record set in 2019. ''Temperatures are likely to rise further through today,'' the forecaster said after the first record fell. The sweltering weather has disrupted travel, health care and schools in a country not prepared for such extremes.

Source: The Times July 19, 2022 17:04 UTC