High temperatures in Spain and France have recently aroused the attention of the heat wave in Europe, reports Al Jazeera, reports Telegrafi.

Yet in recent decades, the continent has not infrequently faced hot summers, which had taken human lives, causing fires in several places.

The following list shows the years of recent decades when Europe was "boiling" from temperatures during the summer months.

2021: Hottest ever

Last year was Europe's hottest summer in history, according to the European Climate Change Monitoring service, Copernicus.

Between the end of July and the beginning of August 2021, Greece faced what Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called the country's worst heat wave in more than 30 years, as temperatures reached 45 degrees Celsius in some regions.

In Spain, temperatures reached 47 degrees Celsius in parts of the south, according to the national weather agency AEMET.

Heat and drought ignited great fires along the Mediterranean, from Turkey and Greece to Italy and Spain.

A child plays in a fountain in London on Friday, June 17, 2022

The year 2019, when Northern Europe was "scorched"

The summer of 2019 brought two heat waves, in late June and mid-July, which left about 2,500 people dead, according to the Center for Research on Disaster Epidemiology at the University of Louvain in Belgium.

In France, temperatures reached a record 46 degrees Celsius on June 28 in the southern city of Verargues.

Thousands of schools were closed.

On July 24 and 25, northern Europe plunged into record heat.

Temperatures of 42.6 Celsius were recorded in Lingen, northwestern Germany, 41.8 Celsius in Begijnendijk in northern Belgium, and 38.7 Celsius in the eastern English city of Cambridge.

2018: Drought "said" the Danube

In the second half of July and early August 2018, there were very high temperatures in most of Europe and rivers that dried up due to drought.

The Danube fell to its lowest level in 100 years in some areas.

Portugal and Spain suffered extremely devastating forest fires.

2017: Warm humidity months

Most of Europe, but especially southern Europe, matured from late June to August.

Spain set a record of 47.3 Celsius on July 13 in the southern city of Montoro.

Persistent drought caused forest fires in Portugal.

People gather at La Concha beach in the Basque city of San Sebastian, in the north of Spain on August 3, 2018

2015: Successive heat waves 

It was wave after wave of heat throughout the summer of 2015, which left about 1,700 people dead in France.

In the UK, roads melted and trains were delayed in the hottest July recorded, with temperatures reaching 36.7 degrees Celsius at Heathrow Airport.

2007: Forest burning in Greece 

Central and southern Europe were hit by drought throughout June and July, provoking a wave of forest fires in Italy, northern Macedonia and Serbia.

In Hungary, 500 people died as a result of the heat.

In Greece, the worst fires in half a century - some believed to be the result of fires, but others the product of heat and drought - consumed four percent of the country's forests.

Firefighters operate at the scene of a fire in the Navalmoral de la Sierra near ilavila, central Spain, on 16 August 2021

2003: 70,000 dead

The UK, France, Italy, Spain and Portugal all experienced extreme heat in the first half of August, while Portugal faced a record of 47.3C in Amareleja in the south.

A European Union study of 16 countries puts the death toll across the bloc during that heat wave at up to 70,000, while France and Italy each reported between 15,000 and 20,000 victims, according to various reports since then.

In France, most of the victims were elderly people who were careless at a stage that traumatized the country and led to the implementation of new systems to protect vulnerable people during heat waves.