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by nottorp 1436 days ago
> The problem is these temperatures are quite a bit higher than ever previously recorded, and go beyond the reasonable scenarios for which they were built.

Exactly. I remember talk in the press about the default asphalt composition for the roads where I am (Romania) being changed to handle higher temperatures like 15 years ago. We're a lot more to the south and got warmer faster than the UK.

It's just the UK's turn now.