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Heatwaves affect Europe, leading to over 1,400 deaths. · Spoken News

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to spoken News. I'm a computer. Heat waves affect Europe,
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  leading to over one four hundred deaths. Since late May
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  twenty twenty six, Europe has been struck by severe heat waves.
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  Temperature records have been broken in Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Romania, Ireland, Italy,
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  the Netherlands, Poland, Chechia, Denmark, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
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  The first heat waves started on the twenty fourth of May,
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  with temperatures ten to fifteen degrees celsius higher than normal,
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  causing several deaths. Temperatures were the highest ever recorded from
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  May and spring, with climate change causing the earlier onset
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  of Central European summer. Western Europe was the most affected area,
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  with reports of record breaking temperatures in France, the United
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  Kingdom and Ireland. Other countries dealing with the regularly high
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  temperatures were Portugal at forty degrees celsius and Spain, which
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  was forecast to reach thirty eight degrees celsius. A second,
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  more severe heat wave began on the seventeenth of Junejune,
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  just days before the summer solstice in France. Mittello, France
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  said the twenty third of June was the country's hottest
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  day since measurements began in nineteen forty seven, with temperatures
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  reaching forty four point three degrees celsius and Pisos, forty
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  two point one degree celsius in Bordeaux, and a June
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  record of forty point nine degrees celsius in Paris. On
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  the twenty sixth of June, the World Meteorological Organization said
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  the heat wave was expected to effect much of western,
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  central and southern Europe over the following two weeks, with
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  the focus of the heat likely to shift towards the Balkans.
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  By the twenty eighth of June, the World Health Organization
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  said that more than one three hundred excess deaths linked
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  to high temperatures had been recorded across Europe since the
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  twenty first of June. A rapid attribution analysis by World
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  Weather Attribution described the event as the most severe heat
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  wave recorded over the region studied, and concluded that comparable
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  June heat would have been virtually impossible in nineteen seventy
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  six without human cause climate change. That's it for now.
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  See the episode notes for Wikipedia sources and licensing. Thank
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  you