France records around 1,000 additional deaths amid extreme heat wave leading to European records

[dalton99a]

https://apnews.com/article/europe-heat-temperature-records-france-deaths-germany-61f444317600cf1bd9af5af84cb582bd

France records around 1,000 additional deaths amid extreme heat wave leading to European records
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and JOHN LEICESTER
Updated 6:23 AM CDT, June 28, 2026

BERLIN (AP) — France saw around 1,000 additional deaths last week at the height of its record-smashing heat wave, the country’s public health agency said Sunday, as Europeans elsewhere were suffering through yet another day of new temperature highs that sparked wildfires in Germany and had Berlin police using water cannons to cool down the crowds.

Temperature records were toppled in several countries on the weekend as the heat wave slowly moved toward eastern parts of the continent.

In Germany, a new nighttime temperature record was reported Sunday from Kubschütz, in eastern Saxony, where the temperature did not drop below 29.4 degrees Celsius (84.9 Fahrenheit). The nightly record came only hours after a daytime record of 41.5 C (106.7 F) in Möckern-Drewitz in Saxony-Anhalt, according to preliminary data by the German Weather Service DWD. The previous record was set a day earlier.

A new study from the World Weather Attribution, a Europe-based collaboration of scientists, reported Friday that the record-breaking heat and humidity in Europe this week would not have been possible without climate change.

The rapid study found that the heat would have been virtually impossible just five decades ago, and is 200 times more likely today than it would have been 20 years ago.

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[malaise]

1. Damn

Rec

[ananda]

2. THat's normal here.

They're not used to it

[malaise]

3. True

Rec

[AloeVera]

4. Not the same, Europe has unique challenges.

For most, there is no escape from the heat. Who could live in Arizona or Florida without air conditioning? Only 20% of Europeans have it. They've never needed it until climate change started to impact. Aside from cost and environmental impact - which Europeans care about - mass adoption would put strain on renewables-powered power grids and contribute to the heat-dome effect in cities.

Then there are the zinc roofs and mansard-style roofs that also trap heat.

Europe has to adapt quickly now , a real challenge.

[ananda]

6. That's what I meant. They're not used to it.

They will now have to learn how to adapt
like we did years ago.

I remember my parents telling me how they
survived a summer before I was born...

they slept on wet sheets with a fan blowing
over them... stuff like that.

Of course, we're also acclimated to heat here
so that helps.

[PCB66]

5. I just put in a new AC

In my Florida home this last week.

I had to go a couple of days in the heat between the old AC going out and the new one put in.

So I have sympathy.