00:00The extreme heat that is baking Europe these days is melting national records.
00:05France and Belgium endured their hottest day since records began.
00:09Britain and Spain hit new records for any day in June.
00:13Experts speak about a heat dome-driven furnace for the second time in two months.
00:18Heat domes are persistent high-pressure systems, which act like a lid on a pot,
00:24trapping hot air and pushing it downward.
00:27How do people cope with the sweltering heat?
00:29Adnan Leal braced the temperatures and looked around in Brussels.
00:34Extreme heat has placed parts of Belgium on red alert.
00:37It's too much warm.
00:39With temperatures reaching up to 40 degrees.
00:42Are you prepared to survive 40 degrees?
00:44In Brussels, the alert is at the second highest level,
00:47and schools are adapting their activities to cope with the heat wave.
00:51But how are people outside coping with it?
00:53I bought myself a lighter clothes.
00:55And then the trees, and then we have the fan. Very nice.
00:58Drinking a lot of water.
01:00Experts say taking small precautions can already make a big difference.
01:04Heat-related mortality has gone up 30% in the last 20 years in Europe.
01:08We can reduce that mortality by developing updates and actions at the personal level.
01:15There is a clear need to develop strategies to cope with these extremes.
01:20They have the potential to healers.
01:22Temperatures are going up, and we continue to go up,
01:24given if we were to stop emission tomorrow, which we are not.
01:28Records break and shouldn't be a breaking news,
01:31because in a sense it's a natural consequence of the fact that the world is warming up.
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