France makes alcohol decision as Europe swelters in heatwave | World | News

France has announced a partial alcohol ban as an intensifying heatwave causes scorching temperatures across much of Europe. French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu banned alcohol consumption at state-organized events to be held on Sunday in regions under red heat wave alert. Paris is among the regions affected by the move, which came after Mr Lecornu held a crisis meeting with his 14 ministers. Fete de la Musique festivals will take place across France on Sunday, but many local authorities have reportedly already canceled the popular annual celebrations due to rising temperatures.

35 counties stretching from the southwest to Burgundy have been placed under a red temperature warning for tomorrow, with the mercury forecast to rise between 39 and 40 degrees. Some areas may even reach 41C. Reuters news agency reports. Almost all of Germany is under a heat warning, with temperatures approaching 38C.

Monday and Tuesday will be Spain’s hottest days, with a number of weather warnings in place.

Spain’s Met Office AEMET warned that temperatures could reach up to 44C in some areas on Tuesday.

Monday could see average temperatures across mainland France reach the highest temperatures on record. Sky News.

Parts of Britain are also facing warmer conditions.

The Met Office has a yellow warning for London, the east and south-east of England and parts of south-west England and Wales on Monday and Tuesday.

The Met Office said areas in southern and eastern England were likely to hit the heatwave threshold at the weekend, with a 40% chance of exceeding the highest ever temperature for June of 35.6C set in 1957 and 1976.

The highest temperature on Saturday was expected to be 28C, before temperatures rose again from Sunday.

Some areas in the south and south-east of England are expected to reach 32C that day, then rise above 34C on Monday.

They’re likely to reach the mid-30s again on Tuesday.