‘I’ve never seen heat this bad. It’s not normal’: Italy struggles as temperature tops 40C 118f

We had 40C here in London this time last year. It was not pleasant. It didn't even rain.

We've been 37 or 38 in my area of Tokyo off and on the past couple of weeks. It will only get warmer. The bad part is that it's still rainy season so we also get stupid humidity to go with it. It's 27 in my office, but we have at least one of our aircon units running nearly 24/7 on the "dry" setting to attempt to pull some of the heat and humidity out.