According to the data of the Netherlands Central Bureau of statistics, the high temperature continued to rage from July 22 to 28, and 2964 people died in the whole country within a week. This figure is about 15% more than the death toll in a normal summer week, of which about 300 are over 80 years old.
The total population of the Netherlands is about 17 million. " Most of the people who died during the week lived in the eastern Netherlands, where the temperature was higher and the heat wave lasted longer than in other regions.
The hot weather hit Europe at the end of July, and the temperature in Belgium, Germany and other countries broke the local record. On the 25th of that month, the temperature in the Netherlands broke the highest record in nearly 75 years and once reached 40 degrees Celsius.
Reuters reported from a number of meteorological experts that due to greenhouse gas emissions and intensified global warming, high-temperature weather this summer may occur more frequently in the future.