Heat Wave Hits Some of Europe’s Top Tourist Attractions
A deadly heat wave is disrupting tourism across Europe, prompting train cancellations and impacting global attractions like Paris’ Eiffel Tower and England’s changing of the guard ceremony.
More than a dozen European nations — including France, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Italy — have issued heat warnings as the region swelters under a “heat dome,” a high-pressure system that traps hot air.
The World Meteorological Organization reports that climate change has hit European summers especially hard, with a 2022 report finding the region’s temperatures are rising at roughly twice the global average rate. At least 95% of Europe experienced above-average annual temperatures last year, a
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