00:06Seven people are dead.
00:08Temperatures are climbing toward 40 degrees, and it's not even June yet.
00:13Europe is burning, and it's only getting worse this week.
00:17France has been at the epicenter.
00:19Five people drowned over the weekend as desperate swimmers headed to lakes, rivers, and beaches to escape the heat.
00:25A 53-year-old runner had a heart attack mid-race in Paris.
00:30A woman died from heat stroke at a sporting event in Lyon.
00:34France's sports minister is now warning that competitions could be canceled outright in the coming days.
00:41Paris recorded its first temperature above 30 degrees Celsius this year on Saturday.
00:46That was just the beginning.
00:48By Friday, parts of southwest France could hit 40 degrees Celsius.
00:53Brittany in the northwest is bracing for 36 degrees today alone.
00:58Orange weather alerts are in force.
01:01And Monday, it was officially the hottest May day ever recorded in France since records began.
01:07Meanwhile, across the channel, Britain hit 34.8 degrees Celsius on Monday, smashing a May record that had stood since
01:151944.
01:16It's not just France.
01:19Northern Spain is expecting 34 degrees today, with parts of Extremadura forecast to hit 38, possibly 40 degrees.
01:27Italy has imposed outdoor working bans and issued heat alerts warning of risk to life.
01:34Germany broke 30 degrees Celsius for the first time this year on Saturday, with temperatures still rising.
01:39The culprit is something called a heat dome.
01:43A high-pressure system locks into the upper atmosphere, forcing air downward, compressing it, heating it.
01:50Hot air expands, traps itself, and winds can't shift it.
01:54The result?
01:55A baking, near-stationary bubble of extreme heat sitting over an entire continent.
02:01And scientists say climate change made a May record like this three times more likely than it would have been
02:07in the past.
02:08French PM Sébastien Lecornu is holding an emergency cabinet meeting on Thursday.
02:13The heat is expected to last at least through the weekend.
02:17Seven people have already paid with their lives, and the worst of this may still be ahead.
02:22Stay safe out there, and if you're in Europe right now, stay indoors during peak hours.
02:27We'll keep following this story.
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