{"id":525729,"date":"2026-06-30T11:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T11:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/525729\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T11:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T11:49:09","slug":"dangerously-high-temperatures-forecast-to-return-to-western-europe-next-week-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/525729\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangerously high temperatures forecast to return to western Europe next week \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Temperatures are forecast to soar across much of western Europe early next week, just days after a record-breaking heatwave<\/a> caused hundreds of excess deaths and \u200cdisrupted daily life across the Continent.<\/p>\n

Luca Mercalli, the president of Italy\u2019s <\/a>Meteorological Society, said temperatures are set to rise again in western Europe from July 5th-6th.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe areas affected look broadly the same as in the first wave, including France<\/a>, Spain<\/a>, Germany<\/a>, Italy, Switzerland <\/a>and to some extent Britain<\/a>,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the extreme heat the risk of forest fires increases, but we are also seeing a lot of rainstorms, which obviously mitigates that risk,\u201d he added, noting that storms were very localised so rainfall amounts could vary greatly.<\/p>\n

The heatwave scorching Europe, the most severe and widespread ever, is only possible due to the climate crisis driven by fossil fuel burning, scientists have said.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0France\u2019s hottest day: \u2018We had 44 degrees. I have a photo of the thermometer\u2019Opens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, parts of central, eastern and southern Europe are sweltering this week as the \u201cheat dome\u201d behind last week\u2019s record-breaking temperatures shifts east.<\/p>\n

Budapest is forecast to exceed 40 degrees on Tuesday, according to models from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. <\/p>\n

Belgrade and Bucharest reached 38 and 37 degrees, respectively, on Monday as the heatwave, which has been linked to hundreds of deaths in western Europe, moved east. <\/p>\n

Slovakia set a new temperature record, reaching 40.5 degrees in a southern border town, beating a previous record of 40.3 degrees set in 2007. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe two hardest days of the heatwave are coming. Let\u2019s show that we are capable of complete national unity. Let\u2019s look out for each other,\u201d Hungary\u2019s prime minister, P\u00e9ter Magyar, wrote on X on Monday.<\/p>\n

Hungarian authorities published a list of more than 2,000 air-conditioned cooling centres across the country for people unable to find relief from the heat in their homes.<\/p>\n

Hungary\u2019s energy minister granted \u2060a temporary exemption for a nuclear power plant from cooling-water temperature rules \u2060to prevent another steep cut in power output amid the heatwave, the plant\u2019s operator \u2060said.<\/p>\n

Red warnings for extreme heat have been issued across Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovakia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, with authorities urging people to stay indoors during the hottest hours of the day.<\/p>\n

\"PeoplePeople cool themselves in a fountain in front of the Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Lviv, western Ukraine, amid the ongoing Russian invasion. Photograph: EPA <\/p>\n

Germany recorded its highest temperature for a third consecutive day on Sunday, with preliminary data from the DWD weather service showing 41.7 degrees in Coschen, Brandenburg. The extreme heat disrupted transport in several cities after tram tracks buckled, while Berlin police deployed water cannon to cool crowds gathering in public spaces.<\/p>\n

In Croatia, the weather service issued a red alert on Monday for regions including the capital, \u200cZagreb, and the tourist destinations of Split and Dubrovnik.<\/p>\n

In Italy, 22 cities from Bolzano in the north to Palermo on the southern island of Sicily were covered on Monday by a red heat warning.<\/p>\n

Pilgrims at the Vatican used fans \u2060to cool themselves and sheltered under umbrellas for shade as Pope Leo delivered his Angelus message from a balcony to the crowd below on the Feast of Saints \u200cPeter \u200cand \u200bPaul, a holiday in the city of Rome.<\/p>\n

Further south, Albania contained a wildfire that has consumed many hectares of bushes and olive trees near the southern village of Klos \u200cover the weekend.<\/p>\n

The heatwave, which began on June 20th, set \u200brecords for early summer and the blistering conditions disrupted power generation, damaged infrastructure and overwhelmed healthcare systems. <\/p>\n

France has reported 1,000 excess deaths blamed on the heatwave. The French public \u2060health agency said most of the heat-related fatalities involved older people and \u2060warned the number was expected to rise. <\/p>\n

French media \u200breported that funeral homes in Paris and the surrounding area were overwhelmed by the number of bodies they had to deal with. <\/p>\n

The heatwave would have been \u201cvirtually impossible\u201d without human-caused climate change, which has made this week\u2019s soaring night-time temperatures 100 times more likely than they would have been just two decades ago, according to scientists.<\/p>\n

Daniele Mocio, a meteorologist with the Italian Air Force, said the heatwave was expected to persist for a few more days in central and eastern Europe, with temperatures running 8-10 degrees above average. <\/p>\n

Further tragedies related to the heat were reported at the weekend.<\/p>\n

Two \u200cboys aged 8 and 10 from Bulgaria were found dead in a hot car in Cyprus on Sunday afternoon, police said. Cyprus is experiencing temperatures of around 38 degrees, which is not classified as a \u200bheatwave on the east Mediterranean island for the time of year.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, two cyclists, aged 30 and 71, died while taking part \u200bin an event in the Poland Bike Marathon series in Marki near Warsaw on Sunday. \u2013 Reuters\/Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Temperatures are forecast to soar across much of western Europe early next week, just days after a record-breaking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2885,1814,292,42,1840,102,43,61457,2846,301,40,38,41,39,1577,18335],"class_list":["post-525729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-climate-change","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-headlines","tag-hungary","tag-italy","tag-news","tag-slovakia","tag-spain","tag-switzerland","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-uk","tag-weather-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525729","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=525729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}