A scorching heatwave inflaming fierce wildfires in Western Europe pressed temperature increases in the United Kingdom above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) for the first time on Tuesday, while regional heat files fell somewhere else.

Pastures blazes flared up on the outskirts of London, forcing 14 people to flee as farm buildings, houses, and garages were devoured by the blaze. “I was sunbathing in my garden when a massive black cloud came across,” said Ciar Meadows, a 30-year-old housewife who was forced to flee her Wennington home.

“Within an hour it spreads all the way to our house… All of our cars have gone.”

Following the UK’s warmest night on record, the Met Office reported a new high of 40.3 degrees Celsius at Coningsby in eastern England.

At least 34 locations in the United Kingdom broke the previous record of 38.7 degrees Celsius set in Cambridge, eastern England, in 2019.

Specialists criticized rising temperatures on climate change and alerted that the worst is yet to come.

[Heatwaves] “are becoming more frequent and this negative trend will continue… at least until the 2060s, independent of our success in climate mitigation efforts,” according to UN World Meteorological Organization chief Petteri Taalas.