Panic in France as major landmark forced to close with 40C heat baking key city | World | News
Paris’s iconic Eiffel Tower Summit was closed due to scorching temperatures in the French capital. Mercury was estimated to hit a 40C in Paris on Tuesday while sweeping a heat wave throughout Europe.
The top floor of the Eiffel Tower of the 330 -meter Tower was closed until Thursday, but the other two levels remained open. While the operators say that the closing was “providing the comfort and security of everyone”, the world’s most visited monument was closed early on Tuesday due to the “extreme temperatures”. The Eiffel Tower on the attraction website announced that it will be “extraordinarily closing” at 16:00 local time.
Seven million people visit the tower every year and are asked to postpone their visits until Thursday.
“We apologize for our discomfort” Heatwave notification on the Eiffel Tower website The arrow will be refunded to add tickets affected by the early closing.
“In this high temperature period, please don’t forget to protect yourself from the sun and remain watery regularly. There are fountains along the roads to Forekourt.”
The National Air Agency of France placed several areas under the highest red alarm due to rising temperatures, and Paris was particularly affected.
More than 1,300 schools in the country were partially or completely closed on Tuesday.
This comes with a temperature of 34.7C at the St James’s Park, England’s center of London, with the record of the hottest day of the year on July 1.
The UK Health Safety Agency (UKHSA) has Amber Heat health warnings in most UK until Wednesday morning.
Most Europe has seen unusual hot conditions, especially in the south of the continent.
Tuesday, Madrid’s Spanish capital, temperatures are expected to reach 39C, the Italian Ministry of Health, 17 of the country’s 27 largest cities lived a heat wave, he said.
In Türkiye, firefighters tried to include fires that pushed the evacuation of approximately 50,000 residents for the third day in a row.
