Temperature records broken, man seriously injured by falling tree during storm

Temperature records for July 6 were broken at 11 out of 165 weather stations in Czechia on Saturday, mostly in Prague and Central Bohemia. The highest recorded temperature was 34.3 degrees Celsius in Prague's Libuš district.

Towards the evening the hot weather was replaced by heavy thunderstorms coming from the west, causing trees to fall on railway tracks and roads. In Prague's Braník district, a tree fell on two people during the storm, seriously injuring one of them, a 30-year-old man. The Prague fire service was called out to deal with 12 incidents relating to the weather.