The infernal heat will also hit the Balkans
Meteorologists are warning of serious risks to the lives of European tourists after temperatures on the Old Continent rose to almost 50 degrees Celsius last week due to the Cerberus heat wave. She is named after the three-headed hound from Dante Alighieri’s Inferno.
There is no sign that Europe will soon get a break from the unbearable heat. A new cyclone is set – Charon, which will pass through southern Europe and heat up the earth so much that new records are expected. The name Charon comes from Greek mythology. He is the boatman who ferries the dead across the rivers Styx and Acheron to the underworld of Hades.
Children play in a fountain in Jerusalem. PHOTOS: Reuters
The warmest next week will be on the Italian island of Sardinia. The thermometers are expected to hit 48 degrees. Temperatures of around 43 degrees are expected again in the capital Rome. There, people walk around with mini fans to save themselves from the hot sun. Italian beaches in the south are also crowded. People even cool off in the fountains.
Tourists in Rome have started using mini fans to cool off. PHOTOS: Reuters
The Ministry of Health issued a red alert for 16 cities, including Rome, Bologna and Florence, for the past weekend. Authorities advised everyone in these areas to avoid direct sunlight between 11am and 6pm and to take care of the elderly or vulnerable.
They become more frequent seizures of tourists,
ambulances are often seen on the streets. Tour guides comment that the situation is extremely worrying.
According to meteorologists, the heat that has gripped Italy, Spain and Greece could lead to “potentially the highest temperatures ever recorded in Europe”. According to forecasts, this will be the hottest wave of the summer. The Balkans will also be gripped by dangerous temperatures this week.
Handing out free water in Athens PHOTOS: Reuters
Authorities in Athens even closed the Acropolis during the hottest hours for the third day in a row. Free water is also distributed to people. However, cases of malaise due to the warm weather are becoming more frequent. In recent days, vacationers in Greece photographed thermometers showing 49°C. The official measured record in Europe was recorded in Sicily in August 2021 and is 48.8°C.
Many tourists are changing their travel plans because of dangerous heat warnings. In places in southern Spain, the ground warmed up to over 60°C.
One of the reasons for the unusually high temperatures is that an area of high pressure has formed around the southern Mediterranean – especially for the area around Spain. Dust clouds from the Sahara worsen the weather conditions further. Another factor is
unusual the tall one temperature of sea water,
because of which no cooler winds blow.
A suffocating heat wave also covered the southern and southwestern parts of the United States. Record high temperatures were forecast for this past weekend in 45 locations, mostly in southern or western states such as Texas, Nevada, Idaho and Oregon. A third of Americans, or about 113 million people, have been warned of dangerous heat – from Florida to California to Washington state.
Las Vegas can have three consecutive days with maximum temperatures of 46°C, which has happened only once before, in 2005. On Sunday, the thermometers there hit even 47°C. Already early in the morning, the degrees exceeded 30.
Roughly five weeks after the skies over New York and much of the Northwest were darkened by wildfires from Canada, thick smoke is still affecting several Canadian provinces and entering the Northern Plains and Great Lakes regions of the United States.
A still from a video shows the extent of the fire that broke out in La Palma. PHOTOS: Reuters
Fire Department The Canaries islands moved out over 4 thousand people
Thousands of residents of the Canary Islands have been urged to evacuate their homes as emergency workers battle to contain a massive forest fire.
It flared up early Saturday morning. In one day, the fire consumed 11,100 acres of land and at least a dozen homes in La Palma, one of the most forested islands in the Canary Islands.
About 400 soldiers are helping to bring the flames under control. Authorities said 4,255 people had been evacuated. Some refuse to do so.
The disaster comes less than two years after a volcano erupted on the island and destroyed thousands of homes.
The fire started in the area of El Pinar in the northwestern municipality of Puntagorda before spreading south to the town of Tijaraffe.
2023-07-16 19:58:00
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