DoomsdaysCW<p>'Unprecedented' alerts in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a> as blistering <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/heat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>heat</span></a> grips <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a></p><p>Kathryn Armstrong, BBC News, June 30, 2025</p><p>Excerpt: "The highest UK temperature of the day was recorded at Heathrow Airport in London at 33.1C. Meanwhile, Wimbledon recorded a temperature of 32.9C, the tennis tournament's hottest opening day on record.</p><p>"Meanwhile, heat alerts across <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Spain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spain</span></a>, which is on course to record its hottest June on record, remained in place.</p><p>" 'I can't sleep well and have insomnia. I also get heat strokes, I stop eating and I just can't focus,' Anabel Sanchez, 21, told Reuters news agency in Seville.</p><p>"It is a similar situation in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Portugal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Portugal</span></a>, where seven districts, including the capital, Lisbon, are on the highest alert level.</p><p>"In <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a>, the country's meteorological service warned that temperatures could reach almost 38C on Tuesday and Wednesday - further potentially record-breaking temperatures.</p><p>"The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/heatwave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>heatwave</span></a> lowered levels in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RhineRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RhineRiver</span></a> - a major shipping route - limiting the amount cargo ships can transport and raising freighting costs.</p><p>"Countries in and around the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Balkans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Balkans</span></a> have also been struggling with the intense heat, although temperatures have begun to cool.</p><p>"In <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Turkey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Turkey</span></a>, rescuers evacuated more than 50,000 people - mostly from the resort city of Izmir in the country's west - as firefighters continued to put out hundreds of wildfires that had broken out in recent days.</p><p>"The fires were fuelled by winds of 120km/h (75 mph) and destroyed at least 20 homes.</p><p>"Wildfires also broke out in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Croatia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Croatia</span></a>, where red heat warnings are in place for coastal areas. An extreme temperature alert was issued for neighbouring <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Montenegro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Montenegro</span></a>." </p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y7781e915o" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y778</span><span class="invisible">1e915o</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Heatwaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Heatwaves</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtremeHeat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtremeHeat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EuropeWx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EuropeWx</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtremeWeather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtremeWeather</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalBoiling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalBoiling</span></a></p>