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Most countries know how to appreciate the sun because though the sun never set on the British empire, it rarely shines in the motherland but today on the south coast of the UK it was 25C and the weather forecasters are warning it could go as much as 10 degrees higher by the weekend.
While colleagues stuck their heads in the sink and hogged the fans, our thoughts must go to the nations across Europe who have been driven to taking extraordinary measures as a heatwave bringing record-breaking June temperatures surpassing 40C (104F) lands in some areas in the coming days.
In Germany, authorities have placed speed restrictions on stretches of the motorway due to concerns that scorching temperatures could damage road surfaces and in France schools have been closed and national exams postponed after education minister, Jean-Michel Blanquer, deemed it would be too hot.
France has also installed temporary fountains and have been roaming the streets, handing water to the homeless while French officials decided that in Paris and Lyon only the least polluting vehicles would be allowed on the roads from today due to pollution level.
Switzerland's national weather service Meteo Swiss has issued a red heat alert, the highest level, and Meteorologists expect previous highs to be approached and possibly exceeded in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.
The last European heatwave even close to being comparable to this one was in 2003, which led to the deaths of 20,000 people but the most disturbing thing about it is that national highest-ever temperature records are typically set in late July or August so grab that sun cream with a factor of a hundred and one because summers here now and it's going to be nasty.