In France since the end of May in the heatwave killed 8 thousand people

An estimated 8,000 excess deaths have been recorded in France since late May during three heatwaves. It's from sb.by.

France-Presse, citing France's national public health agency, said it was not yet possible to determine what proportion of those deaths were directly caused by the high fever. The data remain preliminary and may be revised after the end of the analysis of the entire summer period. The season of epidemiological monitoring of the effects of the heat in France lasts from June 1 to September 15.

- The summer of 2026 was absolutely unprecedented, periods of abnormal heat followed almost continuously, said Guillaume Boulanger.

According to him, usually days with abnormal heat are about 5% of the summer period, and this year this figure will be much higher.

Météo-France said the summer of 2026 was the hottest in France since records began in 1900, surpassing the summer seasons of 2003 and 2022. In Belgium, the death rate due to the heat in June was a record for Europe

In Europe recorded 10,000 cases of excess mortality during the heat wave in late June