{"id":13668,"date":"2019-06-26T20:35:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T19:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/france-heatwave-paris-region-closes-schools\/"},"modified":"2019-06-27T14:34:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T13:34:51","slug":"france-heatwave-paris-region-closes-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/france-heatwave-paris-region-closes-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Heatwave Causes Paris School Closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Schools in and around Paris are closing early today due to what looks like being a near unprecedented heatwave in the area. Temperatures look set to soar to above 40C as exceptionally hot air continues to blow in from the Sahara, and many schools in the Essonne region, just south of Paris sufficient air conditioning to ensure pupil safety. Other measures being taken include traffic control to reduce the risk of smog and free parking initiatives have been set up to try to encourage people to use more public transport.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13696\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13696\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13696\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/shutterstock_438834709-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/shutterstock_438834709-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/shutterstock_438834709-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/shutterstock_438834709-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/shutterstock_438834709-272x182.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/shutterstock_438834709.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13696\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Temperatures are soaring in Europe<br \/>Image Marian Weyo \/Shutterstock<\/p><\/div>\n<p>France was hit by a heatwave of similar magnitude in 2003, which was blamed for 15,000 deaths. The rest of Europe is starting to bake also with Spain and Italy also seeing 40C+ temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>It is not possible to firmly lay this at global warmings door &#8211; however, the tweet below does point out a worrying trend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Extreme heatwaves in Europe should be twice-in-a-century events, says <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/metoffice?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@metoffice<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the third deadly heatwave in 16 years<\/p>\n<p>The five hottest summers since 1500 have all been this century<\/p>\n<p>This is what a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ClimateEmergency?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ClimateEmergency<\/a> looks like<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bJN6VgnDHW\">https:\/\/t.co\/bJN6VgnDHW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CarolineLucas\/status\/1144190400216862720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-48770248\" rel=\"nofollow\">More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schools in and around Paris are closing early today due to what looks like being a near unprecedented heatwave in the area. Temperatures look set to soar to above 40C as exceptionally hot air continues to blow in from the Sahara, and many schools in the Essonne region, just south of Paris sufficient air conditioning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[199,1362,1063],"class_list":["post-13668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-news","tag-france","tag-heatwave","tag-paris"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13668"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13699,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13668\/revisions\/13699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}