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France shuts schools, Italy limits outdoor work as heatwave grips Europe
- A severe heatwave gripped Europe in early July 2025, prompting France to close 1,350 schools and Italy to ban outdoor work during peak heat hours.
- This event followed Spain's hottest-ever June and an abnormal marine heatwave in the Mediterranean reaching record temperatures, which intensified land heat.
- Authorities issued high-level alerts in 16 French departments and 17 Italian cities, closed landmarks like the Eiffel Tower and Brussels' Atomium, and mobilized Red Cross volunteers.
- Temperatures reached up to 41°C in France and 37°C in Brussels, with experts warning heat-related deaths are undercounted and infrastructure and healthcare systems remain strained.
- The heatwave underscores Europe's warming at twice the global rate, highlighting urgent needs for adaptation, preparedness, and early action to reduce heat impacts.
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Heat wave turns climate crisis into a hot topic for EU - USA - Chinadaily.com.cn
A group of middle-school students first waved at me and then stopped me late on Monday afternoon while I was taking a walk in the Parc du Cinquantenaire in Brussels. They were working on a school project, seeking people's views on climate change, especially on the climate actions taken by the European Union.
Burning sun and heat without a break: Lithuania is today experiencing the hottest day of the year. Temperature records are breaking across Europe, and the heat wave, which has been going on for almost a week and a half, is only gaining momentum. In France, authorities have urgently convened a ministerial meeting to discuss how to protect the elderly, children and vulnerable groups from dangerous temperatures. Italy is considering banning outdoor…
Extreme heat continues around the world. Japan had the hottest June on record. On the 30th, temperatures topped 35°C in 100 locations across the country, and the once-in-a-decade heatwave is expected to continue across the country into July. Maximum temperatures have also exceeded 40°C every day in Spain and Italy, prompting warnings to be issued. Researchers have concluded that Japan's record high temperatures in mid-June would not have been po…
Accelerated western European heatwave trends linked to more-persistent double jets over Eurasia
Persistent heat extremes can have severe impacts on ecosystems and societies, including excess mortality, wildfires, and harvest failures. Here we identify Europe as a heatwave hotspot, exhibiting upward trends that are three-to-four times faster compared to the rest of the northern midlatitudes over the past 42 years. This accelerated trend is linked to atmospheric dynamical changes via an increase in the frequency and persistence of double jet
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