Overview

• Sustained 40–44 °C temperatures peaked on June 30, triggering unprecedented alerts from AEMET, Météo France and Portugal’s IPMA across Spain, France, Italy and Portugal.
• Météo France placed a record 84 departments on orange alert while Portugal’s IPMA issued red warnings for Lisbon and surrounding areas.
• Italian hospitals logged a 10 percent rise in heatstroke cases among the elderly, cancer patients and homeless people, and Spain identified 1,135 municipalities as high health risk.
• Wildfires fueled by extreme heat and strong winds forced precautionary evacuations in France’s Corbières region and five neighborhoods in Turkey’s Izmir province.
• The Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research warned that warming Mediterranean waters are attracting invasive venomous species such as lionfish and silver-cheeked toadfish.