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This story was originally published b<\/em>y\u00a0the<\/em>\u00a0Guardian\u00a0and\u00a0is reproduced here as part of the\u00a0<\/em>Climate Desk\u00a0collaboration.<\/em><\/p>

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Malcolm Mistry knew<\/span> it was going to get \u201cvery warm, very quickly\u201d on Monday morning but a slow start out of bed delayed his plans for an early game of cricket with his son. It was already 10 a.m. by the time the pair arrived at the sun-soaked nets of their local club in south-west London, and to the embarrassment of the 48-year-old scientist, who played cricket in his youth, his body was struggling after just half an hour of bowling.<\/p>\n

Had he continued for another hour, Mistry reckons he would have probably suffered from heatstroke. Had he and his son stayed until noon, they would have found themselves straining their bodies in direct sunlight while a nearby weather station logged the UK\u2019s hottest May temperature since records began.<\/p>\n

\u201cI could feel I was panting a bit more heavily,\u201d said Mistry, a leading climate and health researcher at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. \u201cThat\u2019s when I said to myself: \u2018I need to stop here right now, immediately, before something happens.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The dark side of a gloriously hot European summer, excess mortality data compiled by experts such as Mistry shows, is an almost unfathomably large death toll\u2014one that society rarely treats as a crisis. In 2024,\u00a0summer heat\u00a0in the EU claimed roughly three times more lives than\u00a0, 16 times more than\u00a0murderers, and more than 10,000 times more than\u00a0.<\/p>\n

This year, summer highs are striking before spring is even over. It may herald worse heat to come as parts of\u00a0Europe\u00a0brace for yet another torrid season of punishing extremes.<\/p>\n

Temperatures over the weekend reached dizzying highs in the UK, which shattered its historical temperature record for the month by a full 2 C. The\u00a0Monday peak\u00a0of 34.8 C at London\u2019s Kew Gardens was followed by a\u00a0\u201ctropical night\u201d\u00a0at Kenley airfield, with lows that did not drop below 21.3 C, and was\u00a0beaten on Tuesday\u00a0with a high of 35.1 C in west London. The Met Office said the temperatures would be \u201cexceptional in the UK even in mid-summer, let alone in May.\u201d<\/p>\n

In France, where Monday highs surpassed 37.1 C in the south-west, the national warning system was activated for the first time in May since it was introduced in 2004, and\u00a0seven deaths\u00a0were linked to the heat. M\u00e9t\u00e9o-France said abnormally hot periods had occurred in the month in previous years, \u201cbut nothing comparable to this one.\u201d Spain may endure temperatures as high as 40 C this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cEarly-season heatwaves are especially hazardous because our bodies have not had time to acclimatize,\u201d said Garyfallos Konstantinoudis, an environmental epidemiologist at Imperial College London, who estimates an extra 250 heat-related deaths will have occurred in England and Wales between Saturday and Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis exceptional spring heatwave is far more than an uncomfortable disruption to our sleep, work or study,\u201d he said. \u201cFor vulnerable groups without access to cooling\u2014particularly elderly people, the very young and those with underlying health conditions\u2014these temperatures are quite simply dangerous and potentially fatal.\u201d<\/p>

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The specific trigger for the record temperatures is an area of high pressure trapping heat. It comes on top of a global rise in average temperatures, which has increased the likelihood of extremes and made unprecedented highs an increasingly common reality.<\/p>\n

Peter Thorne, a climate scientist at Maynooth University in Ireland, said: \u201cWe know beyond a shadow of a doubt\u201d that the climate crisis had made heatwaves such as the latest one stronger and more likely. \u201cBut nevertheless, many of the records being set, particularly in the UK and France, are mind-bogglingly crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis latest heatwave in Europe is a brutal reminder of the spiraling impacts of the climate crisis, both human and economic,\u201d Simon Stiell, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary. \u201cThe main culprit is the world\u2019s addiction to burning coal, oil and gas, and destroying forests. Many other parts of the world are also getting hit hard, such as India and other parts of Asia. The science is clear that human-induced climate change is making these heatwaves more frequent and extreme.\u201d<\/p>\n

Farmers across the continent have begun to sound the alarm over weather projections in recent weeks, with a regional lobby group in the Netherlands recently warning of stress from prolonged heat and drought. Last month, the young farmers association in Arag\u00f3n, in Spain, warned of a possible \u201ccatastrophe\u201d for cereal crops because of extreme heat and lack of rain.<\/p>\n

Scientists have warned that\u00a0El Ni\u00f1o, a warming weather pattern projected to return in a particularly potent form this year, could lead to even hotter temperatures in 2026. Current projections foresee it reaching moderate strength in the summer and peaking toward the end of the year, though official scientific bodies have warned that projections made before the end of spring are subject to great variability.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat matters much more than hype around an upcoming El Ni\u00f1o is that we have permanently shifted the climate,\u201d said Thorne. He compared it to walking into a casino and rolling a seven on a six-sided dice.<\/p>\n

\u201cI expect numerous notable extremes in Europe this summer because that is our new reality\u2014but exactly what, where, when and with what impacts is not predictable,\u201d he added. \u201cBut if you don\u2019t lose this time, there is always next year. And coming back to the casino analogy, in the end the house always wins.\u201d<\/p>\n

Simon Stiell, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary, said: \u201cThis latest heatwave in Europe is a brutal reminder of the spiraling impacts of the climate crisis, both human and economic. The main culprit is the world\u2019s addiction to burning coal, oil and gas, and destroying forests. Many other parts of the world are also getting hit hard, such as India and other parts of Asia. The science is clear that human-induced climate change is making these heatwaves more frequent and extreme.\u201d<\/p>

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