Seventeen departments of France – in the north-west, as well as Paris – are under an orange alert, indicating people should be “very vigilant” about the weather.<\/p>\n
Temperatures are expected to reach 33C in Paris on Thursday, and top out at 34C on both Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n
Police have announced measures to ease traffic in the capital until Saturday, including only allowing lower-emission cars on roads and lowering speed limits. A single fare for the entire public transport network will be offered at the same time.<\/p>\n
At the French Open in Paris, Sinner appeared to be cruising to a victory before suddenly taking a turn for the worse.<\/p>\n
The Italian complained of dizziness and feeling lethargic before hitting a wall.<\/p>\n
“It was a tough spot to be in,” he commented afterwards, but added: “Really it was nothing against the heat, nothing against the weather. It was just me today, but it happens.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Italy’s red alert in Rome – as well as in Florence, Bologna, Brescia and Turin – is the first of the year, warning of “possible negative effects on the health of healthy, active people”.<\/p>\n
Temperatures will climb to 35C in Madrid over the weekend. Though the current spell does not officially qualify as a heatwave in Spain, the nation’s meteorological office has said the heat is that usually seen in July and August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seventeen departments of France – in the north-west, as well as Paris – are under an orange alert,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-608941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}