Britain is bracing for its first 40-degree day since records began, with concerns the heat wave will place intense pressure on emergency services.
Britain is bracing for its first 40-degree day since records began, with concerns the heat wave will place intense pressure on emergency services and transport links after meteorologists issued anThe UK’s national weather and climate service, the Met Office, has forecast an “exceptional hot spell” for the coming days, saying there was a 50 per cent chance that temperatures would top 40 degrees “and 80 per cent we will see a new maximum temperature reached”.
More than 1000 firefighters, supported by water-bombing aircraft, battled two massive fires in south-western France In Spain, the Environment Ministry said firefighters were tackling 17 bushfires. From July 7 to July 13, Portugal registered 238 excess deaths due to the heatwave, its DGS health authority said, according to Reuters.
Firefighters take a break after battling a forest fire that flared anew in the village of Lagoa Parada, near Ansiao, central Portugal.Government scientists are particularly worried about record temperatures forecast for Monday night , which means people will not get a respite from the daytime heat. The Met Office expects the previous record high minimum overnight temperature of 23.9 at Brighton in 1990 to be beaten.
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