Spain records highs of 46C and France under alert as Europe swelters in heatwave | Europe weather

The wicked heat wave was flooded EuropeWith the punishment of temperatures that have reached levels above 46 ° C (114.8f) in Spain and placed almost the total mainland France under the alert.

The intense heat, which has become stronger than fossil fuel pollution, has gone for several days of Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and Greece, where southern Europe carries the first large heat wave in the summer.

High temperatures have prompted the authorities in many countries to issue new health warnings and firefighters to prevent forest fires.

“The severe heat is no longer a rare event – it has become the new natural thing,” Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary -General, told a development conference in Seville on Monday.

It is expected to protect the southern Spanish city in more than 40 degrees Celsius for the next three days and face night temperatures of no less than 25 degrees Celsius until Thursday morning. Doctors have expressed warning about a mixture of hot and comfortable warm days, which can put fatal pressure on the human body.

in ItalyWhere 21 out of 27 cities were placed on the highest heat alert on Sunday, and the hospital acceptance increased in some of the most areas – such as Tuscany – by 20 %. People advised not to adventure abroad between 11 am and 6 pm.

in FranceThe thermal warnings covered almost the main mainland for the first time in history. Météo-parance put 88 % of administrative areas under the highest orange heat alerts. “This is unprecedented.”

The French government has asked companies to adapt working hours to protect workers from heat, and 200 general schools will be partial or totally closed on Monday and Tuesday. The first fire broke out in the summer in France in the southwest of the country at the weekend, burning 400 hectares, which led to the evacuation of more than 100 people from their homes.

in SpainWho had the worst in the weather, a temporary temporary record was set in June 46 ° C on Saturday afternoon at El Granado, in the province of Andalucían in Hueva. The highest temperature was previously recorded for the month of June 45.2 ° C in Seville in 1965.

On Sunday was the hottest on June 29 in Spain, according to AEMET records, the Spanish Meteorological Agency, which extends to 1950. The temperature is expected to continue until Thursday.

in PortugalAs seven out of 18 areas under red warnings of “severe risks” are subject to meteorology experts will cool the weather on Wednesday evening.

Countries in the far north are also in danger. The German weather service said that the heat and dry weather destroy the danger of forest fires, as some cities impose restrictions on water extraction with the approaching temperatures in parts of the country 40 degrees Celsius by Wednesday.

In Brandenburg, the state surrounding Berlin, the government urged employers to bear the danger of employees in mind. “Companies are obligated to heat protection rules at the workplace,” said regional health minister Brett Muller, including maintaining an acceptable temperature at home and guarding against excessive exposure to the condition.

The UK is expected to get 34 ° C in London and southeast England, with a MET warning that high temperatures and wet conditions will be “very uncomfortable” for those working abroad, as well as people who leave Glastonbury and attending the beginning of Wimbledon.

“The population in urban areas like London is especially vulnerable to extreme heat as it absorbs concrete and asphalt and re -emission of sunlight, which inflames its effect on our bodies. For this reason, external workers are especially at risk and must take a regular break in the shade,” said Radika Khosla, Urban Climate at Oxford University.

Hit kills an estimated half of a million people worldwide every year, with the elderly and those who suffer from a particularly weak chronic disease.

The maximum temperatures throughout Europe are the result of a heat dome that celebrates an area of ​​high pressure and hot air. It comes in the midst of a continuous marine heat wave that left the Mediterranean temperature 5C from the usual, according to the data of the Climate Change Institute at Maine University.

Dr. Michael Bern, a climate scientist at St. Andrews University, said that Hit domes are not new, but the temperatures they threw were. He said: “Europe is more than 2c more warmer than before industry, so when the dome occurs, it pays a hotter heat wave.”

Doctors all over the continent have warned people not to take care of more care in hot weather, encourage them to stay outside heat, drink a lot of water, wear loose clothes, and check the weak neighbors.

Researchers estimate that dangerous temperatures in Europe will kill between 8,000 to 80,000 people by the end of the century, as they lost lives to overcome the strongest heat that was rescued from the most moderate cold.

“The planet becomes hotter and more dangerous,” said Guterres, who called for more work to stop climate change. “There is no fortified country.”

Additional reports from Angelique Chrisafis in Paris, Angela Geoffida in Rome and Dibora Cole in Berlin