Heat, drought and fires they crowd out other topics in the conversations of European citizens, such as the economic crisis or the war in Ukraine, with thermometers raised, and with England, for the first time in its history, alert due to abnormal heat.
Although the case of England is quite striking, the rest United Kingdom According to the local meteorological office Met.
London It is the city that is most affected by the severe heat wave, which the Met says is impacting “people and infrastructure” and could create a “very dire situation” tonight as well as tomorrow, with a forecast of 41 degrees.
However, the situation is worse in Francewhere fifteen departments on the Atlantic coast are on high alert and the heat has set some records, such as in the Breton port of Brest with a temperature of 35.8 degrees – just over two and a half degrees since 1949 – although the biggest problem here is fires.
Fires in the heat
Today, another 11,500 people have been evacuated in the cities of Villandro, Noayan and Leojat, near Landiras, and in the Michelo and Pilat neighborhoods in La Teste de Buch. fires south of Bordeaux, which have devastated about 15,000 hectares since last Tuesday.
In addition to the 16,000 people registered in previous days, almost 28,000 people were evicted from their homes or campsites in the area, and although there were no fatal victimsSome buildings burned to the ground.
The good news is the arrival of the front tomorrow storms which will discharge between the Pyrenees and the Belgian border, from which the heat will be cornered in the southeast France.
In Spain, an intense, prolonged and extensive heatwave is coming to an end this Monday after nine days of highs between 39 and 45 degrees, which the Carlos III Health Institute estimates depends on Minister of Health of Spainwere able to cause 510 deaths related to extremely high temperatures.
In addition, active fires in Spain Two lives have already been claimed and at least 25,000 hectares have been destroyed due to high temperatures and wind.
Italy it also suffers from daytime temperatures of up to 42 degrees and nights of up to 30 degrees in the center and north of the country – in Tuscany, Umbria, Lazio and the Padana plain – combined with the worst drought in seventy years.
Italian meteorologists are already warning that what has just begun will be “the hottest week of 2022” due to an African anticyclone commonly known as “Apocalypse 4800”. record temperatures even in alpine massifs like Mont Blanc where an unprecedented high of 10 degrees is expected.
More disasters
Growth temperature in glaciers can cause disasters such as the recent detachment Marmolada in the Dolomites, which killed eleven people. This Sunday, a new event of this kind was recorded in the region, however, this time without casualties.
A similar situation is observed in Austria with a temperature of 37 degrees of mercury in its eastern, non-alpine part, and where the water of Lake Neusiedl, which borders Hungary and is very popular for local sailing, is at the lowest point from which its records began. in 1965, although it is not completely dry as in 1865.
In Montenegro a. Fire The city of Cabao, located near the Adriatic city of Herceg Novi, has been lashing since Sunday, while in Switzerland a heat warning is affecting the western, French-speaking part of the country, especially the cantons of Geneva, Valais and Basel, with temperatures up to 39 degrees.
In the Netherlands, the tropical heat warning is yellow today with temperatures up to 35 degrees in the center and south, and will be orange tomorrow, with thermometers that could exceed 39 degrees, leading to the application of the National Heat Plan. and even delaying the popular Nijmegen Four Day March.
This Monday Dublin reached temperature According to the Met Éireann, 33 degrees Celsius, the highest in the city since this data was collected.
In the eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus is on a yellow alert with temperatures as high as 39 degrees in the hinterland, expected to last until at least Thursday, while Greece records hot but normal readings for the season, although the environment favors forested fires every year. days: today in the region of Achaia, in the south and on the island of Euboea, where last year several fires destroyed a quarter of its surface.
On the southern coast of the Mediterranean, the heat also feeds Fire and in Morocco, for the sixth day in a row, extinction teams are fighting various fires forestry announced in five provinces, resulting in the burning of about 6,600 hectares, mostly cork oaks, in addition to the evacuation of 1,300 families in Larache province and another 500 in Taza.
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