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A heatwave is sweeping through portions of southern Europe and north-western Africa, and in the following days, temperatures there could surpass records.
Parts of Spain, France, Greece, Croatia, and Turkey are anticipated to see temperatures that are higher than 40C (104F). It might become as hot as 48.8C (119.8F) in Italy. Rome, Bologna, and Florence are among the ten cities that have received a red alert warning.
A forty-year-old man passed away on Tuesday after falling in northern Italy.
The 44-year-old worker was painting zebra crossing lines in the town of Lodi, close to Milan, when he passed out from the heat, according to Italian media. After being transferred to the hospital, he passed away. It’s going to be unbearably hot, tweeted Italian lawmaker Nicola Fratoianni.
Maybe all sensible safety measures are done to prevent disasters like the one that occurred in Lodi today during the hottest hours.
It has been suggested that people drink at least two liters of water each day and steer clear of dehydrating substances like alcohol and coffee.
To stay cool, one group of visitors on the streets of Rome told the Reuters news agency that they were using sprinklers and thermal water.
Mariko Desso, who was visiting from the southern city of Bari, stated, “We’re trying to survive.”
Many foreign tourists have already passed out from heatstroke, including a British guy outside Rome’s Colosseum.
Extreme weather is predicted to hit in the next few days thanks to the Cerberus heatwave, which the Italian Meteorological Society named after the three-headed monster from Dante’s Inferno.
Spain has been scorching in temperatures of up to 45C for days, while evening lows did not go below 25C in several parts of the nation. At 4:00 on Wednesday, temperatures in certain areas of Majorca reached 37C. Since it began in early June, the Andalusian regional government’s hot weather aid hotline has fielded 54,000 calls from people in need. Since May, the emergency medical hotline on the Spanish island of Majorca has had to handle multiple cases of heatstroke each day.
The land temperature in the Extremadura region reached 60C on Tuesday, according to a satellite image captured by the EU’s Copernicus Sentinel mission.
Alejandrina Coy, a resident of Madrid, told Reuters, “It is true that temperatures have risen, but they are much, much higher than in other years.”
“I can see how much this is affecting everyone,” Another local, Paz Llanes, claimed that “the weather is becoming less and less linear, there is less difference between the seasons.”
The Met Office predicts that temperatures will peak on Friday, and BBC Weather predicts that significant portions of southern Europe might experience low to mid-40s temperatures, potentially even higher.
According to BBC Weather, the heat wave is expected to last into the weekend, with Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, experiencing a Saturday high of 36C (96.8F), far higher than the month’s normal temperature of 24C (75.2F).
However, when Cerberus fades, Italian meteorologists are predicting that the upcoming heatwave, known as Charon after the ferryman who transported souls to the afterlife, will raise temperatures once more to around 43°C in Rome and perhaps even 47°C on the island of Sardinia. Near Syracuse, on the Italian island of Sicily, a temperature of 48.8C (119.8F), the highest ever recorded in Europe, was noted in August 2021.
A recent study claims that the heat last year caused 61,672 deaths in Europe. According to the ISGlobal Institute in Barcelona, Italy recorded 18,010 heat-related fatalities, followed by Spain with 11,324 and Germany with 8,173. This summer’s warmth is feared to be the cause of numerous further fatalities. The cities in Spain with the highest risk of heat-related fatalities are Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Sevilla, Málaga, Murcia, Palma de Mallorca, and Bilbao, according to ISGlobal’s research.
A heatwave is a stretch of hot weather during which the temperature is greater than normal for the season.
According to experts, record-breaking heat waves are becoming more often, and climate change implies that they are now to be expected. The hottest June on record worldwide, according to forecasts from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather.
Source- BBC News
