{"id":736744,"date":"2026-08-13T14:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/736744\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T14:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:10:11","slug":"uk-heatwave-live-temperatures-top-37c-in-england-as-amber-extreme-heat-warning-expanded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/736744\/","title":{"rendered":"UK heatwave live: Temperatures top 37C in England as amber extreme heat warning expanded"},"content":{"rendered":"

Europe counts financial cost of record-breaking heatpublished at 12:07 BST<\/p>\n

12:07 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Nick Beake
Europe correspondent<\/p>\n

\"AImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n

Temperatures have rocketed in European cities like Paris over the summer<\/p>\n

Governments across Europe are highlighting the economic damage this summer\u2019s extreme heat is causing. <\/p>\n

France\u2019s environment minister is among the latest politicians to offer an estimate of the potential financial hit.<\/p>\n

Monique Barbut warned that data from the country\u2019s national statistics agency, INSEE, suggests the recent heatwaves could rack up \u20ac10bn to \u20ac15bn (\u00a312.8bn) in direct and indirect costs.<\/p>\n

This week the EU\u2019s climate monitoring service, Copernicus, announced that western Europe had experienced its hottest June-to-July period on record.<\/p>\n

Economists say Europe’s record heat and drought in 2026 will have a significant ongoing impact, pointing to the disruption to power supply, shipping and the construction market.<\/p>\n

Two of Europe\u2019s key waterways, the Rhine and the Danube rivers, are suffering low water levels which is severely limiting traffic.<\/p>\n

The continent\u2019s agricultural sector has also taken a noticeable hit. <\/p>\n

Italy\u2019s largest agricultural trade association, Coldiretti, says climate-related damage – such as hail, drought and wildfires could exceed \u20ac3bn ($2.6bn).<\/p>\n

The Dutch bank Triodos believes the extreme heat and its consequences could wipe out much of the projected economic growth for the EU. <\/p>\n

The European Commission had forecast growth of 1.1%, while the IMF expected the euro area to grow by around 0.9%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Europe counts financial cost of record-breaking heatpublished at 12:07 BST 12:07 BST Nick BeakeEurope correspondent Image source, Getty…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-736744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736744","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=736744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}