Europe Feels the Heat?

Once again, I think I’m living in some parallel universe to the rest of the world. I keep on coming across news stories that talk about "Heatwaves" and "Droughts" in Europe. Here’s another one. As I write this, it’s pissing with rain outside my window (as it has been for most of the summer), and temperatures, apart from four days in June, have been more akin to winter than summer. Perhaps there’s a Netherlands somewhere else where everybody is sheltering from the noonday heat. It certainly ain’t where I am at the moment.