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A tourist uses two umbrellas to protect herself from the sun in front of the Sagrada Familia, during a heatwave in Barcelona, Spain. Photograph: Alejandro García/EPA

Tourists cool off under a cloud of mist at the Plaza de la Reina during a heat wave in Valencia, Spain. Photograph: Manuel Bruque/EPA

People cool off in a fountain during a heatwave, in Rome, Italy. Photograph: Angelo Carconi/EPA

Morning opening: It's hot out there

Large parts of Europe continue to be gripped by a heatwave today, with temperatures in mid to high 30s and low 40s Celsius and a range of health and environmental alerts issued across the continent, particularly its southern part.

Tourists protect themselves from the hot sun with umbrellas during the first summer heatwave in Seville, southern Spain. Photograph: Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters

France, Italy, Portugal and Spain, in particular, have seen extreme weathers over the weekend and they are likely to continue today.

Just take a quick look at the weather forecast: Rome, Madrid and Bologna (36C), Athens and Naples (35C), Lisbon (34C), Zagreb (33C), Paris (32C), London (31C).

There are pockets where the temperatures are even going to hit low 40s, such as in the Extremadura region of Spain.

In Italy, 27 cities were on high alert for extreme health on Sunday. In France, 84 of the nation’s 96 mainland departments are on the second-highest “orange” heat alert, AFP reported.

“This is unprecedented,” Agner Pannier-Runacher, France’s ecology transition minister said.

I will bring you all the latest updates from across Europe here.

It’s Monday, 30 June 2025, it’s Jakub Krupa here, and this is Europe Live.

Good morning.