Welcome to the heat dome, a miserable combination of scorching temperatures, high humidity and tropical nights that won’t fall below 20C (68F) which is currently blanketing much of Europe. There’s a tendency to treat heatwaves as fun, with newspapers illustrating stories with ice creams and people flocking to beaches. But as the Met Office, the UK's national meteorological service, issues only its
Geopolitics Bloomberg Jun 24, 2026