According to the online economy report, quoted by ISNA, the authorities of South East France said that the rescuers could not revive two children aged 2 and 4 who were passed out by their mother in their private car outside the house due to the heat.
As schools closed or changed schedules in France, meteorologists in the UK also predicted temperatures could break June records this week.
The temperature in Bordeaux in western France reached 41.9 degrees Celsius, breaking the record set last August. In Poitiers in central France, the temperature reached 41.2 degrees Celsius, breaking the previous record set in 1947.
In San Sebastián, in normally cooler northern Spain, temperatures were forecast to reach 40 degrees Celsius, more than double the city’s historical average on June 22, according to Reuters Climate Monitoring. This temperature recorded on Monday showed that Europe is the furthest away from its normal temperature.
Claire Barnes, a climate and extreme weather researcher at Imperial College London, said: “The heat wave that has affected large parts of Europe is known as an ‘omega block’ because it is shaped like the Greek letter ‘omega’, with a ridge of warm air in the middle and cooler air on either side.
He said: “Warm air from North Africa, from the side of the Great African Sahara, is pulled up, and that’s why we have this really intense heat.” This heat is very slow moving which means there is no breeze to make things better.
Experts also say heat waves and storms will intensify with climate change, raising temperatures and causing more rainfall.
