Summer hasn’t even arrived that the heat wave has already set in in places. According to a study carried out by The Lancet Planetary Health, the European city where the risk of ‘dying from heat’ is highest in the event of strong heat is located in France. Here is which one.
Summer is often synonymous with holidays, beaches, ice cream…in short, la dolce vita. But this season also has its downsides. Heat wave is a major one, which is pushing the government to take certain measures. Summer sometimes does not even have time to arrive that it can already begin. This year is proof of this, since this month of June 2023 was declared the hottest historically.
In France, some places have broken all records: 31°C in Strasbourg, 30°C in Île-de-France, 31°C in Auxerre or 31.5°C in Lille. Unfortunately, climate change is making the situation worse and causing a early arrival of these strong heat waves. In order to shed light on the climate situation at European level, the review The Lancet Planetary Health unveiled the city where the risk of mortality in the event of a heat wave (to die of hot, therefore), is the highest.
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Paris is the city in Europe where the risk of dying from heat during the heat wave is the highest
According to a study by the journal, Paris would be the European city where the risk of “to die of heat” (during a heat wave) is the highest. On April 18, 20 minutes specified that approximately 400 people die every year because of the high temperatures in the French capital. On the other hand, there are 6,600 deaths per year due to freezing temperatures.
This study focused on 854 cities from 30 European countries, between the years 2000 and 2019. According to the results, the cold would remain much more deadly than the heat wave since 203,620 people die from it each year, against 20,173 people who die during high heat. Still according to the study, the risk of dying from heat in Paris would be multiplied by 1.6 on average compared to temperatures considered normal. Pierre Masselot, one of the main authors quoted by Point on April 16 commented on these results: “This can be explained by the fact that it is an agglomeration highly exposed to the urban heat island effect (ICU), which causes a sharp rise in temperature in summer”he said, before explaining to 20 minutes that the problem of Paris “est the lack of vegetation and also the color of the tar or materials which are very dark and absorb heat”.
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