Europe gripped by heatwave

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Blistering heatwave in most parts of Europe pushes temperatures to over 40 degrees Celsius in most parts of Europe. Many people dread the heat while forest fires rage in Turkiye, France and the United Kingdom.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00to be honest I don't think we actually mentally came prepared that this was

00:15going to be so much so hot in Paris because we had booked the tickets much

00:19well in advance but right now in terms of the heat here we are walking in the

00:24shade we try to use the underground as much as possible that the train just to

00:29avoid the heat and trying to run into museums as much as possible that's what

00:33we are doing right now

00:34I don't want to be in the fridge, not in the congélateur

00:38So, I'm not going to lie to you, I'm going to be in the fridge

00:41we drink a lot of water, we sleep almost at night

00:47we sleep almost at night and honestly it's hot

00:50I don't know how many people who are older or babies do it but I really think about them

00:59I'm not going to lie to you, I mean it's really cold, too cold, too cold, too cold

01:13The problem is how hard it is in distance because a few days

01:17but my son is born in the 2003 that was one of the most infernal ones

01:21if I was there, I think, but in the middle it's hard, especially in the night

01:27It kills me when I'm in London, I'm sweating, you know, I've had three, four, five litres already this morning

01:47and it's just killing me the heat, I can't take it because I'm from Cumbria

01:52I'm not used to it, I've been here four years, the first year I came here it was unbelievably hot

01:58I'm surprised there's not more air conditioning in residential places

02:02I can deal with it though, I mean, it's hot though

02:05Climate change does worry me a lot and certainly we've seen, I've been a Londoner for many decades now

02:10and certainly I think it has got worse

02:12This particular heat wave is not actually the worst that we've experienced here in London

02:18It's quite short, so it's not too bad, but yeah, generally speaking, yeah, it is quite worrying

02:23Now we are seeing that in June 2025 the average temperature of the Mediterranean Sea

02:38is three to six degrees greater than what is normal for this time of year

02:46Unfortunately, this is the outcome of a very warm first six months of 2025

02:56also following record temperatures for the entire 2024

03:03and since the sea is a little slow, let's say, to react

03:08we are seeing this change in June 2025

03:13Everybody is at risk

03:18If you go out without water in the middle of the day to do jogging, have a bike ride

03:24you will probably have severe health problems or even die

03:29The frequency and intensity of extreme heat events is increasing in Europe

03:34and by 2050 about half the European population may be exposed to high or very high risk of heat stress during summer

03:44Why is it happening? Various reasons

03:47One of them is that sea surface temperatures in the Mediterranean are exceptionally high for this time of year

03:54It's the equivalent of a land heat wave

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