Yes, I heard (unverified) that at least four people died - I think they would have all been elderly or sick. Reports are that the heat is over, and we'll be down under 30 soon.
But, by then I will hopefully be in another country. Unfortunately, it is even worse there. Sources say that it doesn't get much worse than this, there, except the few weeks in the middle of summer when it gets into the high 40s. With high humidity, of course.

Great.

[Rosie] For Australian weather, you might be interested in the Bureau's site: www.bom.gov.au. I've been following this handy page there; for data from the last three days click on the appropriate weather station. It samples approx 10 minutely, but maxima or minima are sometimes between those times, such as yesterday's 41.7°C at a bit before 2pm.

Latrobe, Pennsylvania (at Arnold Palmer Airport) currently reports -5 with broken clouds.

jeeeez - that's colder than Antarctica.

[DrQ] Ah, but that's American. Are they using some weird temperature scale that only Americans understand?

[Bm] Are you suggesting that Gdansk was under American occupation during the 18th Century?