People relaxing on the beach on the Baltic Sea in Sopot, Poland, where temperatures are as much as 25 degrees above average. (Photo by Piotr Wittman/EPA)
A woman fans herself as temperatures reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit in Florence, Italy. (Photo by Maurizio Degl'lnnocent/EPA)
People crowd the Badeschiff, or bathing ship, on the river Spree in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Britta Pedersen/EPA)
An Iraqi man cools off under a public shower in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. (Photo by Haider Al Assadee/EPA)
Iraqis swim near Basra's port in order to cool themselves off. (Photo by Haider Al Assadee/EPA)
Young women gather at a water vaporizer to cool down as temperatures neared 100 degrees Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Franck Robichon/EPA)
The air simmers over a road in the city of Chuncheon, northeast of Seoul, South Korea. (Photo via EPA)