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Hot times in Paris and London
A record at Heathrow; and Paris is burning.
Officially the temperature at London's Heathrow Airport reached 98.1 Fahrenheit on Wednesday, a July record for the United Kingdom, according to the UK Met Office.
It fell short of the highest reading ever in the United Kingdom, according to UK Met's Laura Young. That distinction belongs to the official site in Faversham, in Kent – 100.9, recorded in 2003.
She said official records date back over 100 years.
Overall, Western Europe has been quite steamy.
Just before 5 p .m. local time, the Paris temperature hit 103.5, the second-highest temperature ever recorded in the French capitol. The record is 104.7, set in 1947.