Severe heat is to break the temperature records throughout Europe, early measurements, and the leading and strongest forest fires.
In southwestern France, the records were broken on Monday in Angoulême, BergeraC, Bordeaux, Saint-Deilion and Saint-Girons. “The maximum temperatures often, even unprecedented, in the region were 12 degrees Celsius over the standard during the past few decades,” Meti France said.
In Croatia, the air temperature records were placed in šibenik, at 39.5 ° C, and Robrovnik, at 38.9 degrees Celsius, while large forest fires erupted along their coasts and were torn in neighboring countries in the Balkans.
Besides Europe, dozens of temperature records were broken throughout Canada, and the heat of more than 50 ° C in Iraq was broken in the country.
The heat wave in southern Europe comes while the North countries recover from unprecedented temperatures above 30c in the circle in the Arctic this month.
“This summer, like every summer now, it was exceptional in terms of extreme heat around the world,” said Bob Ward, Director of Policy at the Grantham Research Institute.
In Italy, where 16 of 27 main cities were placed under the red heat alerts and a four -year -old boy died due to a hierarchical blow, and in Spain, where a man died in a huge fire after burning burns at 98 % of his body, the high heat did not break a large number of records but still alarm bells.
“The main feature [of the heatwave] “The length and range instead of density. But the temperatures are still very high,” said Jose Kamacho, the AEMET climate and spokesperson for the Spanish weather agency.
In the southwest of France, 40 % of a sample of weather stations recorded temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius on Monday. Lorian Patti, climate scientist in the Metio France, said it was too early to say whether the records were “crashed” instead of simply broken them, but said that the geographical extent of heat was great.
“Unfortunately, it is expected,” she said, adding that more than half of 51 heat waves in France since 1947 have occurred in the past fifteen years. “Obviously, it is a sign that the climate is heated.”
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The hot weather throughout Europe has dried up the plants and allowed fires in the forests to spread it, while scientists described it as a “Molotov cocktail” from climatic conditions. Firefighting scientists in the European Union offered “very extreme conditions” throughout the whole continent this week, with “severe” risks in a large part of southern Europe and highly expected homosexuals in parts of the northern European.
Forest fires in Europe have burned more than 400,000 hectares so far this year, according to the data published on Tuesday, which exceeds 87 % over the average of this time of the year during the past two decades.
The high temperature kills tens of thousands of people in Europe every year. Researchers estimate that dangerous temperatures in Europe will kill between 8,000 to 80,000 people per year by the end of the century, as they lost lives to overcome the strongest heat that was rescued from the most moderate cold weather.
Antonio Gasprini, the epidemic scientist at the London College of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said that the implementation of effective and varied public health measures was very important as heat waves became more frequent.
“This is a severe heat wave hitting Europe this summer,” he said. “As in the previous events in the past months, we can not only expect a large number of death but also a strong geographical difference in excessive deaths.”
Last week, the World Meteorological Organization said that forest fires and poor air quality were double the negative health effects of severe heat. She pointed out that the temperatures during the first week of August reached more than 42 degrees Celsius in parts of West Asia and South Asia in South Asia, most North Africa, South Pakistan and the southwest of the American, where local areas exceed 45 degrees Celsius.
“This is what climate change,” said Ward. “It will get worse.”