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The intense heat wave blasting Europe with record-breaking temperatures manifested on a recent weather forecast as a screaming heat skull of death looming over France.

A forecast map for Thursday, first created June 20, showed France's scorching temperatures creating a giant, screaming face over the country as the country braced itself for the hottest temperatures since a 2003 heat wave killed 15,000 people in the country.

A French meteorologist named Ruben Hallali first spotted the map, and he shared it on Twitter alongside Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream."

—Ruben H (@korben_meteo) June 20, 2019

He said he had never seen anything like the image in 15 years of looking at maps of heat waves.

The map was published by the French website Météociel, which uses different forecasts to generate visualizations of the weather. A Météociel spokesman told CNN that the map was generated from the US Global Forecast System and that its distinctive form happened by chance.

"It just happened to be possible to imagine a special form of a skull in this map," he said.

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France was sweltering through the hottest day on record Friday as the U.S. women's national team prepared for a blockbuster clash with World Cup hosts France.

Temperatures in the southern Gard region hit 114 degrees Fahrenheit at 4 p.m. (10 a.m. ET), the country's national meteorological service said. Hours earlier, temperatures in Conqueyrac broke the previous record when they reached 111.

The French national weather service also activated its highest-level heat danger alert for the first time, putting four regions around Marseille and Montpellier in the south of the country under special watch Friday.

Paris, where the USWNT was playing its do-or-die quarter final match, withstood lower but still sweltering temperatures of around 90 degrees.