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03-07-2025
LONDON/ MADRID/ PARIS: Spain and England have recorded their hottest June ever, as scorching temperatures continue to grip Europe.
Spain’s weather service Aemet said the “extremely hot” June with an average temperature of 23.6C (74.5F), “has pulverized records”, surpassing the normal average for July and August.
In England, the Met Office said June’s mean temperature of 16.9C set a new record for that month, while the UK as a whole saw its second warmest June since records began in 1884.
Mainland Portugal experienced a record daily temperature for June of 46.6C. The monthly average data is yet to be released.
Wildfires in Turkey forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people, while two people died in Italy following separate heat-related deaths.
Overnight, on the first day of July, Aemet said several places across the Iberian Peninsula had topped 43C, but added a respite in temperatures was on its way from Thursday.
Night-time temperatures recorded overnight into Tuesday hit 28C in Seville and 27C in Barcelona.
Later on Tuesday, the UK recorded 34.7C in St James’s Park in London, making it the hottest day of the year so far.
On Monday, the highest daily UK temperature was recorded at Heathrow Airport in London at 33.1C. Meanwhile, Wimbledon recorded a temperature of 32.9C, the tennis tournament’s hottest opening day on record.
According to provisional data, the Met Office said the UK’s mean temperature of 15.2C for June was the second highest on record for that month.
It was “only surpassed by June 2023, which recorded 15.8C”, the agency said.
UK sees hottest day of the year.
In Turkey, rescuers earlier evacuated more than 50,000 people mostly from the western province of Izmir as firefighters continued to put out hundreds of wildfires that had broken out in recent days.
Fires have also swept through parts of Bilecik, Hatay, Sakarya, and Manisa provinces.
Forestry Minister Ibrahim Yumakli said over the past three days, emergency teams had responded to 263 wildfires nationwide.
In France, the heatwave continued across much of the country on Tuesday, a day after many cities experienced their hottest night and day on record for June.
At Paris Orly airport, a reading of 37.6C was recorded a short time ago.
The top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris has been closed because of the intense European heatwave; while Climate Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher called it an “unprecedented” situation.
For first time in five years the Paris region has activated a red alert, the highest extreme heat warning along with 15 other French regions.
As many as 1,896 schools and colleges in France were closed as of lunchtime on Tuesday because of the heat.
The establishments were all in departments in the country covered by the red alert.
A reading of 46.6 C (115.9F) was registered in Mora, Portugal, about 60 miles east of Lisbon on Sunday, the country’s meteorological agency IPMA reported.
It was a record reading for mainland Portugal.
In Italy, the Tuscany region has seen hospital admissions rise by 20%, according to local reports. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
