Aug. 14, 2025 |
Euroheatwave no. 4. Southern Europe continues to roast in its fourth heat wave of the season, with thermometers topping out above 40 degrees Celsius across Spain—and Paris isn’t far behind, with 36 Celsius at Orly Airport. On Tuesday afternoon. Malpensa Airport in Milan hit 33. And the heat is heading to the northwest, so it may get to London before long. (On Tuesday afternoon, Stanstead Airport in the U.K. pushed 31.)
Météo-France placed more than half the Republic under heat-wave warnings on Monday, with 12 out of 96 mainland French administrative units under the highest red alert, while Spain’s Aemet warned of “extreme danger” in Zaragoza and the Basque Country—issuing yellow and orange warnings for almost all the rest of the country.
Both weather agencies forecast temperatures above 40 degrees in the coming days and called for vigilance, forecasting “a very intense, even exceptional” heat wave in parts of the Continent.
French meteorologists say the heat is likely to break records on Monday and Tuesday, with temperatures passing 42 Celsius in the southwest. Last weekend, in the village of Tourbes, near Béziers, temperatures hit a record high of 41.4.
In Spain, Aemet expects temperatures to rise further on Monday in the Ebro basin—the southern and eastern thirds of the Iberian peninsula—and the eastern Cantabrian Sea. And it anticipates 37-to-39 degrees Celsius across the interior of the Iberian peninsula, with maximum temperatures above 40 in the interior of the Basque Country and highs that could reach above 44 in the lower Guadalquivir.
Scorching.
—Brendan Hasenstab
