Several European regions had their highest temperatures on the last day of June, as a heatwave continues into July.

Barcelona recorded its hottest June in over a century, the summit of Paris’ iconic Eiffel Tower was closed to visitors and hundreds of French schools shut on Tuesday as Europe sizzled in its first major heat wave of the summer.

Schools were partially shut in France, iconic monuments closed to tourists, and cities across Europe put on high alert as a record-breaking early summer heatwave spread across the continent Tuesday.Withering conditions that have baked southern Europe for days crept northward where such extremes are much rarer,