Record-breaking heat has claimed the lives of Over 1,000 people have been killed in West Europe over the past week as firefighters struggle to contain flames in three countries. This is all amid a worsening climate emergency. Officials said this weekend.
El País reports Between July 10th and July 15th, heat in Spain claimed the lives of 360 people. This follows the heat-related deaths of more than 800 people last month, according to the Spanish government’s Carlos III Health Institute. Madrid-Barajas International Airport recorded an all-time high temperature of 108°F Thursday, while some Spanish municipalities registered highs of 110°F to 113°F.
One Madrid sanitation worker, 60 years old, collapsed while working on Friday. The man was rushed to the hospital with a body temperature of over 106°F and died of heat stroke. He was one of 123 heat-related deaths in Spain on Friday.
Portugal is in drought, where temperatures are high soared to over 116° in Pinhão on Friday, the Health Ministry said Saturday’s death of 659 people, mostly elderly, from heat-related causes occurred over the past week.
For the first time 40C has been forecast in the UK and the Met Office has issued the first ever ‘red alert.’
Experts have praised this warning for jolting the public’s understanding of next week’s event, from day at the beach to unnatural disaster.https://t.co/baSWWmsGsV
— Karl Mathiesen (@KarlMathiesen) July 16, 2022
The U.K. Met Office Friday in Britain issued its first-ever Red Extreme heat warning for Monday and Tuesday, when an “exceptional hot spell” is expected to hit the country.
AccuWeather senior meteorologist Tyler Roys said “there is concern that this heat could become a long-duration heatwave” lasting into August in places including “the valleys of Hungary, eastern Croatia, eastern Bosnia, Serbia, southern Romania, and northern Bulgaria.”
Also, parts of Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Asia are included. suffering Wildfires and heatwaves.
More than 10,000 people have been evacuated from Portugal, Spain, France and Spain as firefighters battle wildfires that are raging in their respective countries. More than half Portugal is under red alert as firefighters battle wildfires. work to contain 14 separate conflagrations
Europe on fire. https://t.co/WOjD62dRPh
— Rocky Kistner (@therockyfiles) July 17, 2022
According to the Associated Press:
Croatia, Hungary, and Crete (Greek island) have also faced wildfires this week. California, Morocco, and Croatia are also affected. Italy is in the midst of an early summer heatwave, coupled with the worst drought in its north in 70 years—conditions linked to a recent disaster, when a huge chunk of the Marmolada glacier broke loose, killing several hikers.
Even northern Europe has been hit with scorching temperatures. A four-day walking festival in Nijmegen, Holland, announced Sunday that it would cancel Tuesday’s first day. Temperatures are expected at around 39 degrees Celsius (102 Fahrenheit) during the event.
Studies show that shown The human-driven climate emergency is increasing heatwave severity and frequency.
