{"id":5146,"date":"2025-07-01T04:38:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T08:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/us.weatheramerica.com\/?p=5146"},"modified":"2025-07-01T04:38:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T08:38:23","slug":"weather-europe-record-heat-scorches-the-alps-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weatheramerica.com\/us\/2025\/07\/01\/weather-europe-record-heat-scorches-the-alps-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather Europe: record heat scorches the Alps and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5148\" src=\"http:\/\/us.weatheramerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/Europe-record-heat-scorches-the-Alps-and-beyond.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weatheramerica.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/Europe-record-heat-scorches-the-Alps-and-beyond.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/weatheramerica.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/Europe-record-heat-scorches-the-Alps-and-beyond-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/weatheramerica.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/Europe-record-heat-scorches-the-Alps-and-beyond-330x220.jpg 330w, https:\/\/weatheramerica.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/Europe-record-heat-scorches-the-Alps-and-beyond-420x280.jpg 420w, https:\/\/weatheramerica.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/Europe-record-heat-scorches-the-Alps-and-beyond-615x410.jpg 615w, https:\/\/weatheramerica.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/Europe-record-heat-scorches-the-Alps-and-beyond-860x573.jpg 860w, https:\/\/weatheramerica.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/Europe-record-heat-scorches-the-Alps-and-beyond-219x146.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/>Europe<\/strong> is facing an <strong>intensifying heat wave<\/strong> that&#8217;s pushing <strong>temperatures into dangerous territory<\/strong>, smashing <strong>June records<\/strong> across <strong>Southern Europe<\/strong>, including in <strong>Spain<\/strong>, <strong>Portugal<\/strong>, and now the <strong>French Alps<\/strong>. Over the past weekend, the thermometer surged past <strong>100 \u00b0F (38 \u00b0C)<\/strong> in several areas, with the extreme heat wave forecast to spread eastward into <strong>France<\/strong>, <strong>Italy<\/strong>, and large parts of <strong>Eastern Europe<\/strong> in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This <strong>unrelenting heat<\/strong> is fueled by an expansive <strong>heat dome<\/strong> that originated over the <strong>North African deserts<\/strong>, where <strong>historic highs<\/strong> were also recorded in <strong>Morocco<\/strong>. That same air mass is now sweeping across the <strong>Mediterranean<\/strong>, creating a corridor of oppressive warmth that stretches from <strong>coastal lowlands to alpine peaks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the <strong>French Alps<\/strong>, where <strong>June<\/strong> typically brings melting snow and cool breezes, the temperature spike has rewritten the record books. The <strong>freezing line<\/strong>, the altitude where the temperature falls to <strong>32 \u00b0F (0 \u00b0C)<\/strong>, soared to an unprecedented <strong>16,850 feet (5,135 meters)<\/strong> above sea level \u2014 a height never before recorded in <strong>June<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing heat wave caps what is now expected to be <strong>one of the hottest Junes ever recorded in Europe<\/strong>, setting the stage for a blistering start to <strong>July<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe is facing an intensifying heat wave that&#8217;s pushing temperatures into dangerous territory, smashing June records across Southern Europe, including in Spain, Portugal, and now the French Alps. Over the past weekend, the thermometer surged past 100 \u00b0F (38 \u00b0C) in several areas, with the extreme heat wave forecast to spread eastward into France, Italy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":5148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Weather Europe: record heat scorches the Alps and beyond - United States - Weather America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/weatheramerica.com\/us\/2025\/07\/01\/weather-europe-record-heat-scorches-the-alps-and-beyond\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Weather Europe: record heat scorches the Alps and beyond - United States - Weather America\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Europe is facing an intensifying heat wave that&#8217;s pushing temperatures into dangerous territory, smashing June records across Southern Europe, including in Spain, Portugal, and now the French Alps. 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