South Europe roasted as the first heat wave of the continent Scorch Scurs | Climate crisis news
South Europe is fighting against heat heat while temperatures reach 40 ° C, arousing fears of forest fires and health risks.
Europeans have fait for the first heat wave of the northern hemisphere, because climate change pushes thermometers on the fastest continent in the world in the red.
With temperatures that should reach 37 degrees Celsius (99 degrees Fahrenheit) in the Italian capital, Rome, on Saturday, the many Catholic tourists and pilgrims of the eternal city in the Vatican converted around the 2,500 public fountains of the Italian capital for refreshments.
In France, with residents of the southern port city of Marseille, he had to face the temperatures that flirt with 40C (104F), the authorities have ordered that public swimming pools are made for free to help residents beat Mediterranean heat.
Two -thirds of Portugal will be on Sunday alert for extreme heat and forest fires with 42C (108F) expected in the capital, Lisbon.
Meanwhile, visitors – and demonstrators against – – Friday wedding of the Amazon Jeff Bezos magnate in Venice were also stifling under the summer sun.
“I try not to think about it, but I drink a lot of water and I never stay motionless, because that’s when you get Sunstroke,” Sriane Mina, an Italian student, told AFP in Venice on Friday.
Meanwhile, Spain, which has known in recent years a series of fatal Fulgurations of fatal summer ravaging the Iberian Peninsula, expects cutting -edge temperatures above 40 ° C (104F) in most of the country on Sunday.
Scientists have long warned that humanity burn of fossil fuels warms the world with disastrous consequences for the environment, with summer heat waves in constant spouse of Europe and more and more common in long -term warming.
With peaks of 39C (102F) expected in the cities of Naples and Palermo, Sicily ordered the ban on outdoor work during the hottest hours of the day, as well as the Liguria region in northern Italy.
The country’s unions campaign to extend the measure to other parts of the country.
In Greece, the first heat wave of summer arrived on Thursday when a rapidly evolving forest fire swallowed holidays and forestry land on a section of the Greek coast only 40 km (25 miles) south of the capital, Athens.
More than 100 firefighters, supported by two dozen fire -fighting planes, fought against forest fires that torn the coastal area of Palaia Fokaia. The flames were whipped by strong winds as temperatures approached 40 ° C (104F).
The heat wave warms up on the heels of a series of tumbling registers for extreme heat, including the hottest walking in Europe of all time, according to the Copernicus climate monitor in the European Union.
Following warming and extreme weather events on the planet, especially hurricanes, droughts, floods and heat waves, such as this weekend, have become more frequent and more intense, warn scientists.
