{"id":722892,"date":"2026-06-24T09:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T09:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/722892\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T09:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T09:05:16","slug":"live-updates-europe-braces-for-brutal-record-breaking-temperatures-as-heat-wave-intensifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/722892\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Europe braces for brutal, record-breaking temperatures as heat wave intensifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ap26175291463764.jpg\" alt=\"A faithful cools off as he waits for Pope Leo's XIV weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican on Wednesday.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"1333\" width=\"2000\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmqrte7uj000g3b6r1t1fuwjq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Temperatures in western Europe are soaring and while they may not reach the record highs set in 2022, experts are warning this heatwave could be even more dangerous.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmqru049h000o3b6rtieaksrs@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The reason is high humidity, which makes the heat much harder to cope with.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmqrtmlqx000j3b6rfv2i7gb3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Dr Heather Massey from the Extreme Environments Laboratory at the University of Portsmouth told the Science Media Center (SMC) that while the human body has ways of coping with the heat, this becomes less effective when humidity is elevated.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmqrtsdi5000k3b6r8xlmgppt@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cHigher moisture levels in the air reduce the effectiveness of sweating that would cool the body,\u201d she said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmqrttknw000l3b6rgh1e1zgh@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Hugh Montgomery, professor of intensive care medicine at University College London said in a SMC briefing on Tuesday that sweat will evaporate really quickly in dry air, cooling down the skin.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmqrtw1z6000m3b6r5ui7suz5@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cIf you are in a very humid atmosphere, let\u2019s say 100% humidity, or close to, then it\u2019s impossible to evaporate that water. So, there can be no cooling effect, and sweat will just drip off you, and dripping sweat has no cooling benefit at all,\u201d he said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmqrtwk6k000n3b6reysdl9zl@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            To illustrate the problem, Montgomery said that temperatures of 36 degrees Celsius (97F) can become dangerous in 65% humidity, while at 42 Celsius (107.6F) 35% humidity can be \u201cpretty lethal.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Temperatures in western Europe are soaring and while they may not reach the record highs set in 2022,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-722892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}