Climate change was responsible for the extreme weather, Tedros said, warning that Europe was warming at “twice the global average”.<\/p>\n
“Driven by climate change and global warming, the phenomenon of the ‘once-in-a-generation’ heatwave is now occurring nearly annual,” he said.<\/p>\n
He called on European countries to “implement heat health action plans”, as part of a push to safeguard health in the face of climate change.<\/p>\n
The extreme weather has led European authorities to take drastic measures to prevent heat-related illnesses.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, the Dutch music festival Defqon.1 was cancelled following an unprecedented code red warning for extreme heat.<\/p>\n
In Paris, officials banned drinking takeaway alcohol in public and cancelled the city’s pride march to help stretched emergency services.<\/p>\n
The ban began at noon on Friday local time ahead of France’s World Cup match with Norway and lasted until Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
At least 74 people have drowned in France since the beginning of the heatwave, according to Interior Minister Laurent Nu\u00f1ez.<\/p>\n
Most of the deaths occurred in “unsupervised bodies of water such as rivers, lakes and ponds”, he told Le Parisien newspaper on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The record-breaking June heatwave has been blamed on a so-called “heat dome” effect.<\/p>\n
This weather pattern results in air sinking down through the atmosphere, which compresses and heats up as it hits the ground.<\/p>\n
This sinking air also dries out, meaning no clouds can form, so strong sunshine is able to heat the ground up even further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Climate change was responsible for the extreme weather, Tedros said, warning that Europe was warming at “twice the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663879","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=663879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}