Europe Cannot Cope With This Heat
“It is just unbearable,” one Paris resident said.
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PlanetEurope Cannot Cope With This Heat“It is just unbearable,” one Paris resident said.By Joshua PartlowThibaud Moritz / AFP / GettyJune 25, 2026, 8:19 AM ET ShareSave A summer escape to Paris, at least in the American mind, evokes a certain set of images: quiet strolls along the canals, long hours in bookstores and museums, a pleasant park bench, a glass of wine. Those pleasures are now contending with one of the most brutal and dangerous heat waves that Europe has faced in decades, a muggy, enervating stretch of weather that has forced millions of people across Europe, many of them in homes without air-conditioning and with few options for refuge, to endure triple-digit temperatures.Tourist icons of Paris—the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre—have been closing early.
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