Several July days in a row, the temperature has reached over 30 degrees in England and Wales, on Sunday it was 34.9 degrees in Charlwood in Surrey, The Guardian reports.
July was the driest month since 1935 in England and in parts of south-east England it has been the driest month since records began.
According to EDC, the European drought observatory, 47 percent of the EU region is in drought-like conditions and 15 percent suffers from severe water shortages.
Fires have been raging in Europe during the summer, data from the European Forest Fire Information System, EFFIS, shows that the previous record of how large areas burned from 2017 has been broken.
659,541 hectares of land have burned in Europe, compared to 420,913 hectares during the same period in 2017.
- The situation in the form of drought and extremely high temperatures has affected the whole of Europe this year and the overall situation in the region is worrying, we are still in the middle of the fire season, says Jesús San-Miguel, coordinator at EFFIS to The Guardian.
Risk of flooding
At the same time, hail showers and rainy weather are expected in the coming days in both the UK and France.
The British Met Office warns of thunderstorms and heavy rain, with the risk of flooding.
The French weather institute Météo France has issued orange warnings on Tuesday in five departments in the country, writes Le Parisien.
Heavy thunder, rain and hail storms are expected.