6th August - Today's News: Massive Wildfires in Portugal After Record Heat

Whilst no national (or continental) records were broken in the end, many individual locations - incluing Lisbon - saw their highest ever temperature in Portugal and Spain at the weekend.   Unfortunately the heat wasn't all from the sun as wildfires sweep Portugal for the third day as officials send in more than 800 firefighters and nine airplanes to tackle huge blaze in wake of 115F heatwave

Spain hits near-record temperatures of 108F as Iberian Plume kills three, fish drop dead in Germany and people sleep in supermarket refrigerator aisles

In Scandinavia, two brothers killed by lightning as they heat sauna near summer cottage in Finland

In Wales, the scale of Llantysilio mountain wildfire captured in these images as blaze enters 18th day

 - another hot weekend here but cooler later this week for a time.  More heat looks possible towards the end of the month though.

Meanwhile, in the US, massive California wildfire becomes 5th largest in state history, the warm ocean temperatures in San Diego break 102-year record and the world's hottest rain - at 119F - fell in a small California city last month

Canadian man dead following tornado near Alonsa, Man.

In Japan, thousands of households in Yamagata told to evacuate amid heavy rain

Indonesia earthquake leaves at least 91 dead in Lombok, Bali as residents flee

Sargassum: The seaweed deluge hitting Caribbean shores

And the 'unprecedented' 3D animation that reveals what really happens when a killer avalanche hits