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It also found that almost 40 million square kilometres of ocean – an area about five times the size of Australia – were subjected to heatwaves for much of the first half of the year.

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Thank God for the Guardian website. Without it I would never have known that I have been marching through a killer heatwave.

The temperature has been nearing 40 degrees Celsius in parts of Europe as the first heatwave of the summer hits continent.