Hot weather across Europe expected to trigger summer storms

Europe is bracing itself for more hot weather this coming week, which could trigger summer storms across the mainland.

AccuWeather reports another round of scorching heat is impacting millions of people from Spain to Germany and Poland. While some brief relief is possible in France and Germany, extreme heat will hold from Spain to Italy and Poland for much of the week ahead.

Some locations such as Prague, Berlin and Warsaw are expected to approach monthly and all-time record highs during the second half of this week.

The setup for this round of heat is a slow-moving storm to the west of the British Isles and high pressure over eastern Europe which will combine to promote a strong southwest flow from northern Africa and Spain into northern and central Europe.

The heat began to build from Spain to Germany on Sunday before surging to some of the highest levels of the summer on Monday.

A cold front will bring cooler air along with showers and thunderstorms to areas from France into Netherlands, Belgium and western Germany on Tuesday.

"There is concern for some of the thunderstorms to be strong," stated AccuWeather Meteorologist Tyler Roys. "That is especially true in northern Germany and Denmark later Tuesday."

The front will also not be able to sweep the heat away from Madrid, setting the stage for another round of heat spreading into France and Germany during the second half of the week. Highs in Paris will once again climb into the lower 30s C by Thursday.

This second surge of heat would also build across southern and southeast Europe during the second half of the week, impacting areas such as Milan, Florence, Budapest and Prague.