The global heatwave continues to sizzle as humanity experiences its hottest summer on record. Since June 10, when the heatwaves first began, more than 2,300 temperature records have been smashed around the globe, according to CNN. And there's no end in sight for the ongoing scorch fest, with some predicting it could linger into August.
Welcome to the world altered by climate change: Heatwaves are so bad, they've been named after literal hellhounds, at least in the case with the ongoing European heatwave Cerberus, that received its moniker from the Italian Meteorological Society. Named in reference to the three-headed dog monster that inhabited hell in Dante's Inferno, the title is somewhat controversial. However, it may be apt considering 61,000 Europeans died in last year's heatwave, according to a recent study in Nature Medicine, and this one is just getting started.
