{"id":515806,"date":"2026-06-24T08:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T08:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/515806\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T08:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T08:50:10","slug":"heat-dome-sees-temperatures-soar-across-ireland-and-europe-paris-reaches-41-degrees-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/515806\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat dome sees temperatures soar across Ireland and Europe; Paris reaches 41 degrees \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Main Points Key ReadsIreland \u2018at the edge\u2019 of European heat dome as Met \u00c9ireann issues hot-weather warnings<\/p>\n

With temperatures in Ireland bouncing around the mid-20s, Met \u00c9ireann<\/a> has issued a status yellow advisory from midday Tuesday until Friday morning, warning of \u201cexceptionally warm weather\u201d that could lead to water safety issues, uncomfortable sleeping conditions and heat stress.<\/p>\n

This is the second time this summer a prolonged heatwave has seized the Continent. But behind this spike in temperatures is a \u201cheat dome\u201d hovering above the land mass.<\/p>\n

The phrase \u201cheat dome\u201d has only come into use relatively recently and \u201cisn\u2019t a traditional meteorological term\u201d, according to Matthew Martin, a forecasting meteorologist at Met \u00c9ireann. He said it was commonly used \u201cto refer to a slow moving area of high pressure\u201d that \u201cusually develops above large, continental areas\u201d.<\/p>\n

Read our full explainer here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here is the weather forecast for today, with temperatures for some of the key European cities:<\/p>\n

Paris 41<\/p>\n

Bordeaux 39<\/p>\n

Madrid 38<\/p>\n

Frankfurt 37<\/p>\n

Brussels 36<\/p>\n

Rome 35<\/p>\n

Bologna 35<\/p>\n

London 34<\/p>\n

Amsterdam 34<\/p>\n

Zurich 32<\/p>\n

Prague 32<\/p>\n

Berlin 31<\/p>\n

Barcelona 31<\/p>\n

Essentially, if you are anywhere between Lisbon (24) and Warsaw (27), it will be super hot.<\/p>\n

Europe is facing another day of an unprecedented heatwave, with temperatures breaking records in several countries.<\/p>\n

A Met \u00c9ireann high-temperature alert kicked in at noon on Tuesday, and runs until Friday, with a daily high of 28.3 degrees recorded at the Phoenix Park in Dublin.<\/p>\n

The UK is braced for record-breaking temperatures, with schools to close and people urged not to travel, as temperatures are set to potentially reach 40 degrees on Wednesday and Thursday in some parts of England and Wales, and a red weather warning for extreme heat is in place for areas stretching from London to Swansea and Somerset to Birmingham.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, France registered its hottest day on record as 40 people across the country were confirmed to have drowned while swimming in unsupervised areas over the last few days. More than 90 per cent of the French population is exposed to extreme heat \u2013 government data shows.<\/p>\n

Rome, Milan, Florence, Turin, Venice and 10 other Italian cities were subject to the state\u2019s highest level of alert, meaning the heat is deemed to pose a risk to the general population.<\/p>\n

In the coming days, the heatwave is expected to extend into eastern Europe.<\/p>\n

\u201cAround the world climate disasters are becoming more frequent, more destructive and more costly,\u201d United Nations secretary general Ant\u00f3nio Guterres told a climate conference in London, while the city was gripped by suffocating heat. \u201cLondon isn\u2019t just calling, it\u2019s cooking,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll have live updates here throughout the day on the situation across Europe.<\/p>\n

How to sleep in hot weather<\/p>\n

Irish homes are designed to retain heat in colder months, which can quickly make them feel stuffy and warm as temperatures rise, leaving us searching for ways to cool down to sleep more comfortably.<\/p>\n

The Irish Times published a piece on this last week, advising on simple ways to adapt your home to help it feel cooler. These include:<\/p>\n

Keeping blinds and curtains closed during the hottest part of the day to keep the room cooler. If you are renovating or extending your home, it is worth thinking carefully about glazing and shading too. <\/p>\n

Cooking outdoors where possible or using smaller appliances such as air fryers, instead of ovens or hobs, and keeping extraction fans running after cooking. <\/p>\n

Rethinking bedding and switching to a lighter 4.5 tog duvet, as well as using breathable natural fabrics such as cotton and linen. <\/p>\n

Read the full piece here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lower temperatures could come to parts of Europe later today<\/p>\n

Some relief from the heatwave could start to come from the west of Europe later today, which is when Spain\u2019s national weather service said temperatures would drop in most of the country. <\/p>\n

By the afternoon, only parts of the Basque country in the north will still be marked red, and on Thursday no part of Spain will be rated either red or orange.<\/p>\n

Power outages in France <\/p>\n

About 68,000 households were without electricity in western France on Wednesday, authorities said \u2013 the country\u2019s first major power outage of the latest bout of extreme weather. <\/p>\n

The outage, which involved a transformer on the electricity grid, was related to extreme temperatures, the prefecture in the coastal department of Finistere said in a statement. <\/p>\n

Tuesday was the hottest day recorded in France, with an average temperature of 29.8C across the country. Similar conditions are expected until the weekend, with highs between 40 and 42 degrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Main Points Key ReadsIreland \u2018at the edge\u2019 of European heat dome as Met \u00c9ireann issues hot-weather warnings With…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[46,615,220135,61,60,1191,43,15950],"class_list":["post-515806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork","tag-dublin","tag-european-heatwaves","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-met-eireann","tag-news","tag-weather-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}