Hot weather, record temperatures in Spain in June: 3.5° above average. Paris activates maximum heat alert plan

June 2025 shattered all records in Spain. The average temperature was 23.6 °C, 0.8 °C warmer than the previous hottest June on record, that of 2017. The temperature exceeded the June average for the 1991-2020 period by 3.5 °C. This was reported by the Spanish Meteorological Agency (Aemet) in X. June 2025 was also the month with the highest anomalous heat ever recorded in the historical series (provisional data). No month, until now, had ever exceeded its normal average by 3.5 °C. It thus surpasses October 2022 and February 2020.

Parks and gardens open at night, reinforced assistance for vulnerable people, municipal swimming pool hours extended beyond the norm: the municipality of Paris today activated the maximum level (level 4) of its plan against the heat currently affecting the French capital and much of France. Along the banks of the Seine, some 10,000 people, registered in the 'Reflex' risk register, are currently being contacted by telephone by the public services to check their state of health. In case of need, volunteer doctors and social workers are available to provide them with assistance. Paris and 15 other French departments are placed in a state of 'canicule' red alert until tomorrow, a Latin-derived expression used by their transalpine cousins to define episodes of torrid heat. In the capital of France, one of the densest cities in the world, with little public greenery and a dense population often living in tiny apartments of less than 50 square metres, heatwave episodes can prove very difficult, especially for the elderly or vulnerable. According to Météo France, a gradual drop in temperatures is expected from tomorrow in most of France, including Paris. Over the Alps, the memory of the heat peak of summer 2003 is still fresh, with an estimated 10,000-plus deaths. The figure was calculated on the increase in deaths over the period compared to the average of previous years.

Rain and heat caused two deaths in Italy on Monday: in the Turin area, a 70-year-old man drowned in the flooded Frejus river; in the Bologna area, a 47-year-old man fell ill on a building site. The heat is also said to have been the cause of the collapse of one of Generali's maxi signs on a skyscraper in Milan. Today there is a yellow alert for bad weather in Emilia Romagna, Lombardy and Veneto. Campobasso is today added to the 17 cities on the red alert list. Fear yesterday in the Campi Flegrei, following a strong earthquake tremor of magnitude 4.6.

A man, about 50 years old, died when a stream flooded in Bardonecchia (Turin). According to an initial reconstruction, the police found him in the Merdovine stream, about four hundred metres from his van. The police are carrying out a series of investigations into what happened.

The victim is an Italian man, who was reported missing. The fire brigade responded with ten teams including a Drago helicopter. Ten people were evacuated from a building and four others were recovered from their cars. Operations are still difficult due to the unfavourable weather conditions.