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Fires Break Out as Southern Europe Heatwave Intensifies
- On Wednesday, Europe experiences a severe heatwave with temperatures breaching 40°C in Spain, wildfires in France, and the heatwave forecast to last until Tuesday evening.
- Scientists attribute the heatwave’s severity to a 'heat dome' trapping hot air over Europe, intensified by climate change causing earlier and prolonged heat events.
- Spain hit a June record of 46°C Saturday, prompting over 1,300 school closures and firefighters on standby due to wildfires in France and Turkey.
- In response to the ongoing heatwave, Spain's emergency staff are on standby for heatstroke cases, Naples hospital has set up heatstroke pathways, and Turkey evacuated over 50,000 residents from wildfires.
- Experts warn that Europe will face increasingly hotter summers, with climate change causing the continent to warm twice as fast as the global average and forecasts predicting a consistently warmer-than-average season.
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European hot and dry summers are projected to become more frequent and expand northwards
Heatwaves and dry spells are major climate hazards with far-reaching implications for health, economy, agriculture, and ecosystems. The frequency of compound hot and dry summers in Europe has risen in recent years. Here we present an examination of past extreme summers and compare them to future climate conditions. We use reanalysis data (2001–2022) and model data at three global warming levels: +1.2 °C, +2 °C, and +3 °C for nine selected sub-re…
The early heat wave in Western and Southern Europe extends northward on Tuesday.
In many parts of Europe the temperature records are pruning, regions suffer from lack of water, the danger of forest fire increases. Waters also become warmer or dry out.
GENEVA.- Europe was still under the first great heat wave this summer, with health warnings in effect on Tuesday, even when conditions were beginning to improve in some parts of the continent. Hard temperatures were predicted to reach 40 degrees in Paris and would remain unusually high in Belgium and Holland. In contrast, temperatures were falling in Portugal, where no red heat warnings were issued. Warm nights, in some cases with temperatures c…
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