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Hanoi residents experienced a severe heatwave, with daytime temperatures as high as 41 degrees Celsius on Wednesday (May 27) while many parts of Europe were also hit by hot weather including Slovakia which experienced one of the coldest winters not long ago.

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00:25I'm going to go to bed and I'm going to sleep.
00:35I'm going to sleep in four days, today is the best.
00:38I'm going to sleep and I'm going to sleep, but I'm still going to sleep.
00:41My God, I'm so hungry.
00:45I'm not sure if I'm going to sleep, I'm not going to sleep.
00:50Thôi nhanh chóng và chị cũng về. Chuông nhau cho nó mát thôi...
00:57Cứ ở ngoài đường này thì chị chết! Chết ngạt.
01:03Chạy trong những giờ nắng này mới có nhiều đơn...
01:08Chạy mát mát thì đơn lại ít nên trời nắng.
01:12I'm trying to go a little bit, but it's still a bit wet, but I can still hold it.
01:34I'm very excited, it's a nice weather,
01:37I can't even see them.
01:39I feel like they are best.
01:40It's super hot.
01:41I feel like it's hot as you need.
01:45I'm glad I'm thinking
01:46that you will see a little bit of the day
01:48that you'll see a more of the day.
01:50I'm swimming in the summer.
01:52I'm swimming in the summer so I'm swimming in the summer.
01:55But it was a bit of a little bit of a day.
01:59It was just a little bit of a day that came out.
02:00But I'm happy.
02:02I'm so good.
02:13What's particularly notable about the heat records we've seen in recent days is how much we've beaten the record by.
02:20So the previous record of 32.8 degrees Celsius was really eclipsed by the 35.1 that we've provisionally reported
02:28at Kew Gardens.
02:30And normally with these warm temperature extremes, you're looking at beating temperature records by fractions of a degree.
02:37But this is more than two degrees higher than the previous record, which is really notable in terms of the
02:42UK climate record.
02:43These temperatures are really unusual, not only in general, these would be unusually high temperatures for any time of year.
02:51But for this early in the year, before summer has really started, they're really extreme.
02:55We've seen temperature records broken by really big margins.
03:00Actually, I think in some regions, June temperature records have been broken and it's still only May.
03:05And some of those records have been broken by as much as two degrees, which is absolutely massive.
03:10Heat waves are always driven by circulation patterns.
03:13So in this case, we've got what's called a blocking high.
03:16So there's high pressure and it's sitting in one place and that's that's causing these prolonged high temperatures.
03:20But obviously, we know that underlying that we have this constant warming effect from from climate change that is driven
03:27by human activity, by by human emissions of fossil fuels and greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
03:33So we know that heat waves are one of the most dangerous types of extreme weather.
03:37The dangers are not always so obvious as they are with floods or wildfires, but actually far more people die
03:43of heat stress because of heat waves than do in floods or wildfires typically.
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