Feeling hot, hot, hot
A girl stands among the cooling jets of a London fountain during a heatwave in Britain, with temperatures hitting the early 30s in degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit and above) – not all that hot by some countries’ standards, but fairly sweltering for the normally mild island. Brits are not the only ones to feel the heat over the past month: from the United States to Europe and China, various places across the northern hemisphere have been coping with scorching weather and residents have been finding ways to cool off.
Eight-year-old R.J. Hernandez from El Campo, Texas, lies buried in sand as he cools off near the Pacific Ocean during a heatwave in California.
Isaiah Gonzalez and Isaiah Ceballos sit under a waterfall as the temperature climbs to 46.7 degrees Celsius (116 degrees Fahrenheit) in Tempe, Arizona.
A woman in Times Square pulls a large hat down over her shoulders during a heatwave in Manhattan.
Two men drift along the Potomac River in Harpers Ferry.
Girls cool off as they dance beside a fountain in Washington’s Sculpture Garden as the city experienced a heat wave with temperatures approaching 38 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit).
A boy swings across a stream during hot weather in central England.
Men lounge in an inflatable dinghy near a gentrified warehouse on Regent's Canal.
People cool down in fountains along the South Bank by the river Thames.
A couple relax in the sunny weather as deer walk by in Richmond Park.
Crowds fill the shore near Brighton Pier.
A man sunbathes with his face covered by a t-shirt on Brighton beach.
A couple sunbathe near Bournemouth beach.
A young man uses a waterslide at Berlin's Wannsee lido.
A woman and her dog cool off in a fountain during a heat wave in central Prague.
A young man jumps in a fountain in front of the Eiffel Tower on a sunny day in Paris.
Caitlin, an Australian tourist, soaks up the sun’s rays in Cannes.
Children cool off under a shower at a public garden in Nice.
A man jumps from a 10-meter (32 ft) high public diving platform into Lake Zurich.
Simon Smit and his dog Geddon spring from a wall into the Limmat River.
People standing on the Quaibruecke bridge watch a man as he leaps into Lake Zurich.
A woman bathes at Ostia beach, 16 km (10 miles) south of Rome.
A couple swims in the sea during a heatwave coursing through Italy with temperatures rising up to 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit).
Swimmers enjoy a warm summer's day at an open-air pool.
A person slides down a water chute at a public swimming pool in Vienna.
A boy jumps into a swimming pool from a high diving platform during a hot summer's day in Hall in Tirol.
Young men shower as others play at a beach a few miles southwest of Athens.
A man showers on a broken water pipeline on a hot day in New Delhi.
A boy takes part in a water fight at People's Square in Shanghai, where temperatures reached 36 degrees Celsius (97 degrees Fahrenheit).
Children sleep on the floor of the Qiaosi subway station in Hangzhou, where more than 600 people cooled off as temperatures in the city hit a high of 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) during a regional power outage.
Visitors crowd into an artificial wave pool at a tourist resort to escape the summer heat in Suining, Sichuan province.
