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ARTICLE VIEW:
The Eiffel Tower is closed to tourists due to searing heat. Here’s
why it’s happening
By Laura Paddison, Andrew Freedman, CNN
Updated:
2:26 PM EDT, Tue July 1, 2025
Source: CNN
A marine heat wave in the Mediterranean Sea is combining with a
powerful heat dome to cause Europe to swelter under a brutal early
summer heat wave.
It’s a pattern that’s popping up frequently as the planet warms:
The influence of Mediterranean marine heat waves has been more
pronounced in recent summers, with the ocean heat playing a role in
spiking temperatures on land, contributing to deadly floods and stoking
devastating fires.
Water temperatures in the Mediterranean Sea are for this time of year
amid a significant marine heat wave. The most intense warming is
present in the western Mediterranean, including just south of France.
This is helping to cause high humidity to surge north and to keep
temperatures elevated at night across the heat wave-affected regions.
The heat wave, which also involves hot air flowing north from Africa,
is also reinforcing the marine heat wave in a feedback cycle.
Temperatures have broken records in Spain and Portugal as swaths of
Europe brace for more records to fall through Wednesday as the heat
wave intensifies.
The town of El Granado in Spain saw temperatures spike to 46 degrees
Celsius (114.8 Fahrenheit) on Sunday, a new , according to Spain’s
national meteorological service AEMET. Last month was Spain’s hottest
June in recorded history, as temperatures “pulverized records,”
Aemet said Tuesday.
In Portugal, a provisional temperature of (115.9 Fahrenheit) was
recorded in the city of Mora, about 80 miles east of Lisbon, according
to the country’s weather service IPMA, which would be a new national
record for June.
Scorching heat is sweeping almost the entirety of France. Multiple
towns and cities endured temperatures on Monday, according to
provisional recordings from Météo France.
A red heat wave warning, the highest designation, is in place for 16
French départements Tuesday, including Île-de-France, where Paris is
located. The Eiffel Tower summit is to tourists Tuesday and Wednesday,
with staff asking their would-be visitors to take precautions during
the searing heat.
“We apologize for the inconvenience caused, Eiffel Tower staff wrote
on the landmark’s website. “During this period of high
temperatures, please remember to protect yourselves from the sun and
stay hydrated regularly.”
The United Kingdom is also baking, currently enduring its second heat
wave of the summer. Temperatures pushed on Monday, making for very
uncomfortable conditions in a country where fewer than 5% of homes
have air conditioning.
“The current June-July heatwave is exposing millions of Europeans to
high heat stress,” Samantha Burgess, strategic lead for climate at
the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting, said in a
statement.
“The temperatures observed recently are more typical of the months of
July and August and tend to only happen a few times each summer.”
Wildfires are sweeping several countries as the temperatures spike.
Fires broke out Sunday in Aude, in the southwest of the country,
burning nearly 400 acres. In Turkey, 50,000 people have been evacuated
as firefighters tackle fierce blazes mostly in the western Izmir and
Manisa provinces.
Temperature records are also poised to fall Tuesday and Wednesday in
Germany as the heat dome expands east, and before a series of
relief-providing cold fronts begin to swing into northwestern Europe
from the west.
Human-caused climate change is causing heat waves to be more frequent,
intense and long-lasting. Europe is the fastest-warming continent, and
is warming at twice the rate of the rest of the world. Climate change
is also leading to more frequent and intense marine heat waves.
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