The rapid analysis by World Weather Attribution calculated that climate change might have tripled the death toll from the event.

Europe has been experiencing dozens of extreme weather events in recent weeks, from blistering heatwaves to raging storms. Many of these rapidly fluctuating phenomena have already been attributed in part to human-induced climate change.

Researchers said they believe that human-driven climate change probably intensified the recent European heat wave and increased the number of heat-related deaths.