On May 26th, the United Kingdom broke a temperature record that had lasted about a century for the second time in 24 hours as a spring heat wave spread across parts of Western Europe.
 　A temperature of 35.1℃ was recorded at London’s Kew Gardens, breaking the 34.8℃ record set a day earlier at Kew. It also beat the older record of 32.8℃ set in 1922 and matched in 1944.
 　On May 25th, France also broke temperature records. Temperatures reached 36℃ in the southwest and remained above 20℃ at night in many places. The national weather service in France said a “heat dome” was trapping hot air because of a high-pressure weather front. This was producing temperatures more than 10℃ above what is usual for this time of year. Several people drowned in Britain and France while trying to cool down. Large parts of the Iberian Peninsula had temperatures 5℃ to 10℃ higher than normal.
 　Unpredictable and extreme weather is becoming more frequent as Earth gets warmer.
 　

　5月26日，一波春季熱浪席捲西歐部分地區，英國在24小時內二度打破百年來的最高氣溫紀錄。
　倫敦皇家植物園記錄到攝氏35.1度的高溫，打破了前一天創下的34.8度的紀錄；也打破了1922年創下、1944年追平的32.8度的紀錄。
　5月25日，法國的氣溫也破了紀錄，法國西南部氣溫達到攝氏36度，夜間許多地方的氣溫也維持在20度以上。法國國家氣象局表示，由於高壓系統盤據形成「高溫穹頂」，罩住熱空氣，導致氣溫比往年同期高出10度以上。英國和法國有多人試圖降溫時溺斃。伊比利亞半島大部分地區的氣溫則比正常水平高出攝氏5度到10度。
　隨著地球變暖，難以預測且極端的天氣變得越來越頻繁。