Italy limits outdoor work as heatwave breaks records across Europe | Europe weather
The outdoor work was prohibited during the hottest games of the day in more than half of the Italian regions as an extreme heat wave that has broken temperature records in June in Spain and Portugal continues to grasp large areas of Europe.
Extreme temperatures would have won at least three lives, including a little boy who died of a heat stroke while he was in a car in the province of Tarragona in Catalonia on Tuesday afternoon.
In Palermo, Sicily, a 53 -year -old woman died on Monday after getting around while walking along a street. She would have suffered from a heart disease. A 70 -year -old man would have drowned in a tourist station near Turin, because intense heat has given way to the storms and sudden floods.
Admissions to hospital emergency units in parts of Italy have increased by 15 to 20% in recent days. The majority of patients are elderly people with dehydration.
The heat wave, which forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people from their homes in Turkey due to forest fires, also forced the closure of the schools of certain parts of France while the teaching unions warned that classrooms were dangerously hot for children and teachers.
Tourists, on the other hand, were faced with closures from certain popular sites in Europe. The top of the Eiffel Tower was closed while temperatures in Paris had to reach 38 ° C (100.4F). In Brussels, the Atomium monument, famous for its giant stainless steel balls, closed early while temperatures increased around 37 ° C.
In Italy, Lombardy and Emilia -Romagna, two industrial centers, announced that they are stopping outdoors between 12:30 p.m. and 4 p.m., joining 11 other regions – extending from the Liguria to the northwest of Calabria and Sicily in the South – which have imposed similar prohibitions in recent days.
Local authorities treated unions’ councils after the death of Brahim Ait El Hajjam, a 47-year-old construction worker who collapsed and died while working on a construction site near Bologna, the capital of Emilia-Romagna on Monday.
Two workers fell ill on Tuesday on a construction site near Vicenza in Veneto. One would be in a coma.
The CGIL Bologna and Fillea CGIL unions said in a statement: “While we are waiting to learn the real cause of death, it is essential, during this terrible period, to promote a security culture. The climatic emergency has clearly aggravated the conditions for those working outside and companies must grant absolute priority to the protection of workers. ”
The French national rail operator SNCF said that train trips between France and Italy had been suspended for “at least several days” after violent storms on Monday, AFP reported.
Cogne, a city in the Aosta valley which underwent serious floods in June of last year, was cut by a landslide.
The Spanish State Meteorological Agency, AEMET, said in a social media update that “June 2025 failed” with regard to the high temperature, with an average temperature of 23.6 ° C, 0.8 ° C above the hottest period in June more in June in 2017.
The agency’s comments come only a few days after the temperature of 46c of June 46c of Spain was recorded in the province of Huelva d’Andalucía.
In Portugal, temperatures reached 46.6 ° C in Mora, a city in the district of Evora, which makes it the highest temperature of June ever recorded in the country, according to the Portuguese Institute for the Sea and the atmosphere.
In France, Prime Minister, François Bayrou, tried to calm the anger of the heat waves crisis in French schools. More than 1,896 schools across the country were completely or partially closed on Tuesday.
In Paris, who was on the maximum alert of heat waves, the parents were invited to keep their children at home on Tuesday and Wednesday. Some other cities, including Troyes and Melun, have closed all their schools.
Bayrou said that the Ministry of Education would open discussions with mayors on how to adapt school buildings, most of which are extremely badly isolated.
While temperatures increased on Tuesday, some Paris teachers were nothing more than a water spray on their desk to praise children several times in classrooms in the hope of staying cool.
Bayrou, who faces a vote without confidence on Tuesday, that he should survive, canceled his meetings to monitor the situation in real time.
The hot weather front known in Germany under the name of Bettina should have almost the whole country in its grip on Wednesday, with temperatures pulling 40C to the brand and only coasts and alpine peaks spared the hot temperatures.
Industry groups have warned that schools, healthcare homes and hospitals were ill -prepared for the heat wave – an urgent problem which, according to them, must be resolved as the frequency of bad weather putting the deadly conditions increases.
Other cities across Europe also experience higher temperatures than usual, notably Zaragoza (39C), Rome (37C), Madrid (37C), Athens (37C), Brussels (36c), Frankfurt Am Main (36C), Tirana (35C) and London (33C).
The Minister of Turkish Forestiers, İbrahim Yumaklı, said that firefighters had been called 263 forest fires across the country in recent days. Firefighters also discussed forest fires in certain parts of France and Italy, in particular on the islands of Sardinia and Sicily.
