Temperature records broken as extreme heat grips parts of Europe | Extreme heat

Excessive heat breaks temperature records throughout Europe, proposes early measurements, and larger and more powerful forest fires.

Registrations were broken in Angaoulême, Bergerac, Bordeaux, Saint-émilion and Saint-Gircons on Monday in Southwest France. Météo France, the region “usually remarkable, even unprecedented maximum temperatures” for the last few decades of the norm has been over 12c, he said.

In Croatia, 39.5c in šibenik air temperature records and 38.9c in Dubrovnik, while the large forest fires were angry on the shores of the Balkans and passed through the neighboring countries in the Balkans.

Beyond Europe, dozens of temperature records in Canada have been broken, and the record -breaking heat of over 50C in Iraq was accused of a country -wide darkening.

The heat wave in Southern Europe comes as long as it gets rid of over 30C in the Cancer of Scandinavian countries this month.

Bob The Policy Director of the Grantham Research Institute, Bob Ward, said, “This summer, now as every summer, it is extraordinary in terms of extreme temperature worldwide.”

In Spain, where 16 of the 27 major cities were placed under red heat warnings and died of heat hit by a four -year -old child and died in a forest fire after burns in 98% of a man’s body, high heat did not break many records, but still the alarm bells.

“Main characteristic [of the heatwave] José Camacho, a climatic scientist and spokesman of Spanish Air Agency Aemet. “But the temperatures are still very high.” Says.

In south -west of France, 40% of the example of air stations on Monday recorded over 40C temperatures. Lauriane Batté, a climatic scientist in Météo France, said that the records were too early to say whether they are “shattered rather than being broken, but the geographical dimension of the heat is important.

“Unfortunately, it is expected,” he said, and since 1947, more than half of the 51 heat wave in France has been realized in the last 15 years. “Obviously, a sign of the climate warming up.”

The hot weather in Europe dried up the vegetation in what the climatic conditions of scientists described as “Molotov cocktail ve and allowed forest fires to spread further. EU Fire Scientists foresees “extreme conditions ve on the whole continent this week, and in most of Southern Europe,“ especially violent ”risks and high anomalies expected in some parts of Scandinavian.

According to data released on Tuesday, forest fires in Europe have burned more than 400,000 hectares so far this year, which is 87% more than the average of the year in the last twenty years.

High heat kills tens of thousands of people in Europe every year. Researchers estimate that the dangerous temperatures in Europe will kill more than 8,000 to 80,000 people a year until the end of the century, because the stronger temperature survived the stronger temperature.

Antonio Gasparriin, an epidemiologist at the London Hygiene and Tropical Medicine School, said that it is critical to apply effective and various public health measures as heat waves become more frequent.

“This is another excessive wave of heat that hit Europe this summer,” he said. “As in previous events in the past months, we can expect not only a significant death fee, but also strong geographical differences in excessive mortality.”

Last week, the World Meteorological Organization, fires and bad weather quality overheral temperature, said negative health effects, he said. In the first week of August, the temperatures of West Asia, Southern Central Asia, North Africa, Southern Pakistan and South West reached more than 45C in some parts of the USA.

“That’s how climate change looks, Ward Ward said. “And it will only get worse.”