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Temperatures will remain high around the clock in France, the European nation the most affected so far by the early summer heat wave. The national weather service, Meteo France, placed 54 departments, about half the country, under a red heat wave alert.<\/p>\n

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Italy, Spain, and Britain were also hit.<\/p>\n

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Human-caused\u00a0climate change\u00a0is tied to increasingly extreme weather, and U.N. climate agency projections say the next five years should\u00a0shatter more heat records.<\/p>\n

French Prime Minister S\u00e9bastien Lecornu said that the 40 people who died by drowning since last Thursday were mainly young people.<\/p>\n

In a country without\u00a0widespread air conditioning, schools, public transportation and sporting events have been impacted. Extreme conditions are expected to last at least until the end of the week, with daytime highs above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in many towns.<\/p>\n

\u201cFurther record-breaking temperatures are expected, including some that could surpass all previous records, regardless of the time of year,\u201d Meteo France said.<\/p>\n

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The heat wave is exceptionally intense, coming very early in the summer, \u201cbut with a still uncertain duration,\u201d the weather service said. It has already been compared to the August 2003 heat wave, when the highest temperatures in over half a century caused an estimated 15,000 deaths, many of them among older people in apartments and retirement homes without air conditioning.<\/p>\n

Europe is the world\u2019s fastest-warming continent, with temperatures increasing twice as fast as the global average since the 1980s, according to the European Union\u2019s Copernicus Climate Change Service. Over the last four years, more than 200,000 people across Europe died from heat-related causes, and most of those deaths were preventable, the World Health Organization\u2019s Europe office said this month.<\/p>\n

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The above-average temperatures can cause\u00a0heat exhaustion and life-threatening heat stroke.<\/p>\n

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Heat wave hits Britain and Spain<\/h4>\n

Across the English Channel from France, many British schools said they were closing for the day and trains were disrupted as the Met Office, the U.K. weather agency, issued a red extreme heat warning for Wednesday and Thursday, with forecasts suggesting June\u2019s all-time daily temperature record could be broken.<\/p>\n

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Temperatures of around 37 degrees C (98.6 F) are expected in southern England, with up to 35 C (95 F) in southeast Wales. The peak of the heat wave is now forecast for Wednesday and Thursday, when highs could reach at least 39 C (102.2 F). Conditions are expected to ease by Friday, the Met Office said.<\/p>\n

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On Tuesday multiple train operators across the U.K. said they were canceling train services to \u201censure the safe operation of the railway.\u201d National Rail, which operates the railway infrastructure, urged people to \u201conly travel if absolutely necessary\u201d on Wednesday and Thursday.<\/p>\n

Further south on the continent, Spain is facing a heat wave across various parts of the Iberian Peninsula.<\/p>\n

Spain\u2019s national weather service, Aemet, issued red alerts Tuesday for temperatures of 44 C (111 F) in southern Andalusia as well as warnings of thermometers hitting 40 C (104 F) in the normally temperate Cantabria and the Basque Country regions along its northern Atlantic coast.<\/p>\n

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Aemet meteorologist Rub\u00e9n del Campo said Spain, which has experienced increasingly torrid summers of late, is only going to get hotter because of climate change as heatwaves become more frequent, longer and appear outside the traditional window of July and August.<\/p>\n

Of the dozen heatwaves Aemet has recorded in the month of June since it started tracking them in 1975, half have occurred since 2015, del Campo said.<\/p>\n

Human-driven climate change is heating up the atmosphere, both above Spain and in the surrounding sea waters, he said.<\/p>\n

Copernicus, the EU monitoring agency found that in Europe and globally, 2024 was the hottest year on record and the continent experienced its second-highest number of \u201cheat stress\u201d days.<\/p>\n

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Scientists warn that climate change is exacerbating the frequency and intensity of heat and dryness, especially in\u00a0southeastern Europe, making the region more vulnerable to health impacts and wildfires.<\/p>\n

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Associated Press journalists Sylvia Hui in London and Joseph Wilson in Barcelona, Spain, contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

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