Europe's deadly heatwave scorches east, Slovakia hits record

BUDAPEST, Hungary – Europe’s most severe heatwave on record set new temperature records in eastern parts of the continent on Monday and forced Ukraine to order power cuts to cope. The scorching heat, which first smothered western Europe last week, has already set records in Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany as it moved east in recent days. Slovakia on Monday registered a new record temperature of 41C in Turna nad Bodvou in the southeast, the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute (SHMU) said. The mercury reached 41.8C in Aszod in central Hungary, just below the country’s absolute heat record of 41.9C from 2007. […]... Keep on reading: Europe's deadly heatwave scorches east, Slovakia hits record