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Global News Podcast · Western Europe hit by record-breaking heatwave · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

Our correspondent in Paris, Hugh Schofield, told us more about the impact the heat's having.

Gradually, over the last few years, we have been becoming accustomed to periods like this.

And the forecasters have been telling us, everyone believes it now, that they are going to become more regular and therefore part of our lives.

We were reporting in very similar circumstances about a month ago with a very similar period of unprecedented increase.

heat.

And back then, all the people we were speaking to were saying what they're saying now, which is this is something we're just going to have to learn to cope with.

It's not pleasant.

It's a kind of Middle Eastern style of heat, which the country is not really, certainly the northern part of the country, is not equipped for.

Here in Paris,

Private homeschools don't tend to have air conditioning, and that's something which people are beginning to think more and more of.

I know that there's been a rush on buying air conditioning units from suppliers.

So, yeah, I mean, more and more, every time this happens, people realise that it's for real, it isn't a one-off, it's going to be part of our lives, and they're having to adapt.

Now to Spain.

Our correspondent in Madrid is Guy Hedgcoe.

Guy Hedgcoe.

Well, across much of Western Europe, forecasters have warned that the heatwave will be widespread, long-lasting and intense, with temperatures not expected to drop until the end of the week.

Something called a heat dome is being blamed for the scorching temperatures.

For more details on that weather phenomenon, here's Simon King from BBC Weather.

Now, this is clearly a weather event.

To what extent is it made more likely by climate change?

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