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France records its hottest day ever as Europe withers in early heat wave 47%
By SAMUEL PETREQUIN0%
6/23/2026, 12:36:44 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 19 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Availability Heuristic, and Biased Writer Voice, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 51.2% saturation with 193 hits. Analysis detected 1,069 faulty-reasoning hits from 377 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 48.8% and a BS Rank of 47% (11,597 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 53.00% of the article peer group.
PARIS (AP) — France recorded its hottest day ever Tuesday as an early heat wave gripped Europe, prompting the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre museum to restrict visiting hours and disrupting school and transportation schedules in multiple countries.
Punishing temperatures extended to the United Kingdom and Spain, where weather agencies issued red alerts — like France — about the risks of extreme heat for tens of millions of people.
The record of 29.8 C (85.6 F) for France’s national thermal indicator — an average of temperatures measured at 30 weather stations — was only the latest in a series of never-before-registered highs heaped on Europe’s largest country.
The conditions were likely to persist at least until the weekend.
“Further record-breaking temperatures are expected, including some that could surpass all previous records, regardless of the time of year,” the Meteo France weather service said.
In a country without widespread air conditioning, schools, public transportation and sporting events have been affected.
In Paris, the Eiffel Tower closed in the afternoon instead of late at night, as it usually does.
The Louvre museum said it would close two hours earlier than normal from Wednesday through Saturday.
“Although parts of its historic building are naturally resilient, the museum remains vulnerable and is not sufficiently adapted to climate change,” Louvre officials said.
“Heat buildup is greatest toward the end of the day and is further intensified by high visitor numbers.”
This heat wave, coming early in the summer, has already been compared to the August 2003 heat wave that roasted France with the highest temperatures in over half a century.
It caused an estimated 15,000 deaths, many of them among older people in apartments and retirement homes without air conditioning.
Human-driven climate change is heating up the atmosphere, both above Spain and in the surrounding sea waters, he said.
Copernicus, the EU weather monitoring agency, found that in Europe and globally, 2024 was the hottest year on record, and the continent experienced its second-highest number of “heat stress” days.
Scientists warn that climate change is exacerbating the frequency and intensity of heat and dryness, especially in southeastern Europe, making the region more vulnerable to health impacts and wildfires.
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