Filenews 30 June 2025
Cyprus is among the countries for which the Foreign Office has issued a travel warning.
The reason has nothing to do with the recent events in the Middle East, but with the high temperatures recorded in general in countries of Southern Europe and especially on our island.
Filenews spotted one of the relevant news stories of the previous days in the Mirror, which in a report notes that the Foreign Office has issued travel guidelines for Britons traveling to Spain, Turkey, Greece and Cyprus, as a heat wave sweeps the European Union.
Northern Europe is currently experiencing an early summer heat wave, with meteorologists warning of even higher temperatures in the coming weeks. Even in the UK, we felt the heat, with thermometers reaching 34°C on Saturday.
France's national meteorological service, Meteo France, echoed these warnings, pointing out that high temperatures put "everyone, even healthy people, at risk".
Portugal recently recorded the highest temperature for this year, at 40.5 degrees Celsius, while in parts of Spain the mercury exceeded 42 degrees.
The situation is already much more serious in Southern Europe, with Chios in Greece currently at the mercy of a terrible fire. Residents have been evacuated after the dry island was engulfed in flames over the weekend.
On its website, the Department of Foreign and Commonwealth Development (FCDO) has issued extreme heat warnings in four countries, including Greece, where nighttime temperatures remain persistently above 30°C in large areas of the country.
