Red heat alerts issued in France, Italy and Spain as 40C temperatures forecast
France's national railway operator SNCF urged "vulnerable" people to avoid or postpone train travel this week.Some 845 schools in France were shut, while a further 1,800 are allowing pupils to finish classes early, the education ministry said. But more than a million high school students were take their oral final exams for the baccalaureate amid the heat. Ambulance workers tried unsuccessfully to resuscitate the pair.
- ▪France's national railway operator SNCF urged "vulnerable" people to avoid or postpone train travel this week.Some 845 schools in France were shut, while a further 1,800 are allowing pupils to finish classes early, the education ministry sa
- ▪But more than a million high school students were take their oral final exams for the baccalaureate amid the heat.
- ▪Ambulance workers tried unsuccessfully to resuscitate the pair.
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Red heat alerts issued in France, Italy and Spain as 40C temperatures forecast7 minutes agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleLana LamandAlex KleidermanGetty ImagesThe heatwave will be "widespread, long-lasting and intense", France's forecaster warnedRed heat alerts have been issued in France, Spain and other nations across western and central Europe as heatwave conditions are forecast to intensify in the coming days with highs of more than 40C.More than half of France's regions are currently under the harshest weather warning, with hundreds of schools ordered to close and highs of 42C predicted in Bordeaux on Monday, forecaster Météo-France said.Two children aged two and four have been found dead in their family car in the town of Carpentras in south of France, in an accident being…
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