Temperatures around 40 degrees cause people to create in many parts of Europe. The situation is relaxing, but only for a very short time! In the US, the temperature record could fall in the infamous Death Valley.
In Spain tourists and locals groan from the heat. The second major heat wave had barely subsided after four days when the national weather service announced a new heat wave: between Monday and Wednesday it would be 42 to 44 degrees.
Highest alert level in Italy
Also Italy suffer from the heat. The Ministry of Health announced the highest heat warning for 16 major cities on Sunday: maximum temperatures of 37 degrees were measured in the capital Rome. In Florence, Tuscany, the thermometer rose to 38 degrees, in Bologna to 39 degrees. In Apulia, Sardinia and Sicily even the 40 degree limit was broken again.
Only Greece could “breathe” – if you can call it that at such high temperatures. Northerly winds dropped temperatures to below 40 degrees in almost all regions on Sunday. Record temperatures of 44.2 degrees were measured on the holiday island of Crete on Saturday.
However, the end of the heat wave in Greece is not yet in sight. The temperature will rise again from Wednesday: it should be 44 degrees warm in Athens this weekend. Due to the extreme drought and the wind, the risk of forest fires is particularly high.
Istanbul is slowly running out of water resources
Also in the Turkish The weather service warns of extreme heat in the coming days. Temperatures in excess of 40 degrees are expected in Antalya. The regions of southern Turkey devastated by the earthquake in February also remain extremely hot. Meanwhile, water resources in Istanbul are dwindling. The reservoirs are only 41 percent full — the lowest level at this time of year in nine years.
Meanwhile, everyone is watching Death Valley in the US state of California, one of the hottest places on earth. There, the maximum value of 54.4 degrees from 2021 was reached on Sunday. The record was set there in July 1913 with 56.7 degrees – the highest global ambient temperature ever recorded.
Source: Krone
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