Europe braced for another day of extreme heat as warnings issued across UK, France and Italy – live

Key events Paris mayor reports 'increase in mortality' due to heatwave Paris mayor Emmanuel Gregoire said there had been an “increase in mortality” in the capital owing to the heatwave, without giving any figures, AFP reported. He said “pretty much all our indicators are in a critical state” , including calls to emergency medical services, calls to the fire brigade, ER admissions, and deaths, he told local TV. Heatwave hits in Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France. Photograph: Apaydin Alain/ABACA/Shutterstock Morning opening: The heatwave continues Ready for another day of temperatures way above 30C? People browse fans and air conditioning units in a homeware store, amid a heatwave in Paris, France. Photograph: Tom Nicholson/Reuters The European heatwave of 2026 begins to slowly move eastwards, but things are still going to affect millions of Europeans. The red extreme heat warning continues in the UK ; 72 out of 96 mainland French departments are covered by its French equivalent, as are 17 Italian cities – and these numbers are actually even higher than yesterday. It’s 33C in Nantes , 31C in Paris and it’s not even 10am local time. We will see the highs of 39C in Paris , 36C in Germany’s Cologne and Italy’s Bologna , 35C in Belgium’s Brussels , 33C in Berlin , and 31C in London . And Bratislava, Budapest, Prague , and Warsaw look on, wondering about what is going to happen as the temperatures there are expected to hit, erm, 40C over the weekend and on Monday. …