This how July 2018 feels like in Europe: Sweden has issued a warning for extremely hot weather; Belgium has marked the beginning of a heatwave as the stem of the thermometer has crawled above 30 degrees; Scotland faces record-breaking heat and Italy experiences temperatures around 40 degrees Celsius. Check out how the continent and its residents are coping with the heat in Sputnik's gallery.
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A crowd strives to cool off at the mixed-pond on Hampstead Heath in London while Britain rides out its longest heatwave in decades.
© AFP 2023 / Tolga Akmen
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Bathing by the Baltic Sea beach in the northern German city of Travemuende.
© REUTERS / Fabian Bimmer
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A man jumping into a canal in central Brusselsr to cool off at the start of a heatwave.
© AFP 2023 / Belga / Nicolas Maeterlink
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As Italy is experiencing its first summer heat wave, with temperatures approaching 40 degrees Celsius, tourists cooling themselves in the water of the Trevi Fountain in central Rome, repeating Fellini's iconic scene.
© AFP 2023 / Andreas Solaro
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A boy trying to cool off in a fountain on a hot summer day in Brussels, Belgium.
© REUTERS / Yves Herman
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A woman trying to escape the heatwave on the beach in South Wales, UK.
© Ben Birchall/PA
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Paris' post-card Fontaine du Trocadero in front of The Eiffel Tower turned into a safe haven amid a heatwave in Europe.
© AFP 2023 / Bertrand Guay
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A girl cooling off in southwestern France's Bayonne.
© AP Photo / Bob Edme
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Bournemouth beach after the heatwave covered England's Dorset.
© AP Photo / Andrew Matthews
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Escaping hot weather under the water jets of sprinklers and fountains near the Chancellery in Berlin, as temperatures are expected to reach 32 degrees Celsius.
© AFP 2023 / Tobias Schwarz
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Hiding in the shade on a hot sunny summer day at Berlin's Wannsee lido.
© REUTERS / Fabrizio Bensch
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Drone-view at bathers at the public beach of the Wannsee lake in Berlin.
© AFP 2023 / Paul Zinken
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Girls chilling at the Fontaine du Trocadero in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
© AFP 2023 / Bertrand Guay
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Keeping a tapir cool from temperatures around 35 degrees Celsius at the zoo in Osnabrueck in northern Germany.
© AFP 2023 / Friso Gentsch
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Sunbathing in the center of the Swedish capital Stockholm.
© AFP 2023 / TT News Agency/Hossein Salmanzadeh
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Sunbathing by the Baltic Sea beach in Timmendorfer Strand in Germany.
© REUTERS / Fabian Bimmer
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Paris' post-card Fontaine du Trocadero in front of the Eiffel Tower turned into a cool haven amid a heatwave in Europe.
© AFP 2023 / Bertrand Guay
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A tourist shading herself in central Rome amid Italy's first Summer heat wave with temperatures approaching 40 degrees Celsius.
© AFP 2023 / Andreas Solaro