it is not just europe that is feeling it, here if n the u.s. well. >> it is interesting too, we'll touch on all that, but i want to get to the climate angle of this. of all the natural disasters that we study as meteorologists from tornadoes to hurricanes and typhoons all the way through drought and coastal floodings, heatwaves actually has the strongest evidence linking climate change and our changing climate across the planet longer duration heatwaves, they begin earlier in the season and the frequency, basically the strength of the heatwaves becomes more intense. right? so just take france for example yesterday. 200 records set or tied. there were three different locations that set their all-time record high temperatures, it had never gotten that hot at those three particular locations ever before. we have to say something is happening here and we need to take a deep dive into it because it is a climate crisis, a climate emergency that we're dealing with. not only across europe, remember that is weather, not climate, short term weather versu