Hungary's meteorological service has issued its highest-level red warning, with daytime highs forecast to reach 41 degrees Celsius and temperatures on Tuesday potentially challenging the country's all-time national record of 41.9 degrees set in 2007.
The country remains under its highest-level heat alert, in force until midnight on Monday, with the World Health Organization saying more than thirteen hundred excess deaths have been recorded across Europe since the heatwave began on the twenty-first of June.
Hungary's Paks nuclear power plant has also been forced to cut output after Danube cooling-water temperatures exceeded safe thresholds.
Pablo Gutierrez reports from Budapest.
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Pablo Gutierrez in Budapest says the city's public transport network has largely kept running, with authorities deploying newer air-conditioned buses on routes normally served by older vehicles.
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Reporter Pablo Gutierrez in Budapest says residents are expressing relief at the authorities' response, though he notes the lack of air conditioning in much of Europe's housing stock remains a long-term challenge.
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