<img class="styles__noscript__2rw2y" src="https://s.w-x.co/util/image/w/europe_actual_highs_june2019_2.jpg?v=at&w=485&h=273" srcset="https://s.w-x.co/util/image/w/europe_actual_highs_june2019_2.jpg?v=at&w=485&h=273 400w, https://s.w-x.co/util/image/w/europe_actual_highs_june2019_2.jpg?v=ap&w=980&h=551 800w" > Actual highs in Europe in late June.

At a Glance All-time record highs for June have been topped in eight European nations.

France set a new all-time record high for any month.

An area of high pressure in the upper atmosphere was responsible for the extreme heat. A heat wave has set new all-time June record highs in eight European nations and an all-time record high in France.

An all-time record high was preliminarily smashed in France on Friday when a temperature of 114.6 degrees Fahrenheit was reported in Gallargues-le-Montueux, in southern France. In addition, at least 12 stations saw temperatures higher than the previous national record on Friday. The previous all-time record high for any month was 111.4 degrees, set on Aug. 12, 2003.

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This also marked the first time the 45 degree Celsius threshold (113 degrees F) was reached in France, according to Meteo France and is the hottest day ever measured in June for the country.

France had set a new all-time June record high on Thursday, when Grospierres recorded a high of 108.1 degrees. Previously, the highest fully reliable June temperature in France was 106.7 degrees at Lezignan-Corbieres on June 21, 2003, according to Etienne Kapikian , a meteorologist at Météo-France.

One French station with a long-term climate record, Clermont Ferrand, set a new all-time record high for any month at 105.6 degrees, Wednesday.

Many individual cities in France broke June record highs once again on Saturday, according to Kapikian .

The heat was so intense some French vineyards reported vines scorched by the heat.

Several other countries set all-time June record highs from Wednesday through Sunday (June 26-30), including:

-Poland : 100.8 degrees at Radzyń; tied previous record of 100.8 degrees in Wroclaw in June 1935.

-Czech Republic : 101.3 degrees at Doksany; previous record 100.8 degrees at Brno in June 2000.

-Germany : 103.3 degrees at Bernburg / Saale, Sunday, topping a 101.5 degree high at Coschen set last Wednesday; previous record 101.3 degrees in June 1947. Fifty-one individual German reporting stations set new June heat records Wednesday.

-Luxembourg : 98.2 degrees at Petange; previous record 97 degrees on June 22, 2017.

-Principality of Andorra : 100 degrees at Borda Vidal; previous record 96.8 degrees in June 1935.

-Switzerland: 98.6 degrees at Sion on Sunday set a new June record.

-Liechtenstein : All-time June record high of 98.8 degrees set at Balzers on Sunday.

Germany had its hottest June day on record Wednesday. The German weather service reported that 204 of its 451 active stations broke or tied their June record highs, German meteorologist Michael Theusner said in an email to Dr. Jeff Masters , senior meteorologist at Weather Underground. Eleven of those stations broke or tied their all-time record high for any month.

The hottest temperature measured in Germany on Wednesday was 101.5 degrees at Coschen (Brandenburg) and Bad Muskau (Saxony).

Germany's highest mountain, the Zugspitze, where weather records extend back to 1900, recorded its all-time warmest low temperature for any time of year Wednesday morning at 54 degrees .