In the UK, will the bodies adapt to ever more severe heat waves?

IIt's official: the weather has never been so hot. After days of investigation, the Met Office confirmed on Monday that Britain had reached its highest temperature ever recorded, with mercury reaching 38.7 degrees Celsius (101.7 Fahrenheit) at the Botanical Garden. 39, University of Cambridge, last Thursday.

"No wonder we all felt like we had melted," tweeted the garden staff, summing up the mood of many Britons who had taken desperate measures to stay cool, even taking a storm off South London lido.

Elsewhere in Europe, last week's heat wave took an even harsher turn with temperatures in Paris reaching 42.6 ° C (42.7 ° C), pushing the government's health minister, Agnès Buzyn , to warn: "Everyone is in danger."

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