The Deaths in Europe Due to the Heat Are Stacking Up
By LooeyVille
@LooeyVille (86)
United States
June 26, 2026 12:43pm CST
More than 200 people have died in heat-related deaths in Spain.
There are at least 5 deaths in Italy
Strangely enough 48 people in France have drowned while trying to cool down from the heat.
Temperatures in Europe have gone over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
We’re used to that in many places in the USA and most of us here have air conditioning in our homes. I couldn’t live without it. I read that only 20% of homes in Europe have air conditioning because they don’t usually need it.
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@xFiacre (14867)
• Ireland
9h
@looeyville We need air con for about half an hour every three years. Fortunately we always miss the heatwaves that bedevil southern England. The toewn my brother lives in in France hit 40 today. So glad I’m not there right now. I hope all the heat dissipates by the time I go to Italy - 9 weeks today.
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@xFiacre (14867)
• Ireland
8h
@LooeyVille Trieste - James Joyce lived there, and Rilke. A unique place, at least it was in ‘75.
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@LooeyVille (86)
• United States
9h
I’ll be in Italy in six or seven weeks. Trieste. Day trip from where we’re staying in sslovenia
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@snowy22315 (209651)
• United States
10h
Climate change isn't going to go away. Europe had a bad heat wave last year I believe it was. I think there is going to be a surge in people buying air conditioners there.
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@LooeyVille (86)
• United States
8h
There’s no such thing as “climate change” or “global warming”. That is a public relations stunt by scientists. The earth has always undergone cyclical changes in weather for thousands of years. There are years in our history that were warmer than now.
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@snowy22315 (209651)
• United States
7h
@LooeyVille I disagree, and so do the majority of climate scientists. Whatever you believe..the heat waves are going to continue and worsen.
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@RasmaSandra (98468)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
7h
Never could understand how people in Europe cannot cope with the heat. When I lived in Latvia a hot summer meant a summer to me because summers always seemed too cool. Well me and hubby opened out front door we had a locked garden gate and all the windows in the house to catche every breeze and then sat and cooled off in out littel pool in the garden it worked out fine, Don't know how people cannot cope fi I had to I would also sit in a cool bathtup for awhile,
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