The extreme heat that hit Southern Europe over recent days has surged north, shattering records and for many bringing normal life to a standstill.
Tens of millions of people in Europe are suffering through the continent’s worst heatwave, which shattered records and sparked fires across the south before striking France, Germany and the United Kingdom where a red extreme heat warning has been declared.
In the Gironde region of southwestern France, ferocious wildfires continued to spread through tinder-dry pines forests, frustrating firefighting efforts by more than 2000 firefighters and water-bombing planes. Left: Paramedics move a patient to an ambulance during a heat wave in Barcelona, Spain. Right: Firefighters battling wildfire near Landiras, southwestern France.London faced what Mayor Sadiq Khan called a “huge surge” in fires because of the heat. The London Fire Brigade listed 10 major blazes it was fighting across the city on Tuesday, half of them grass fires.
Normally, the UK is spared the worst impacts of heatwaves, which tend to develop over large landmasses rather than open water. There was little room to move on Brighton Beach as people tried to find some relief from the scorching heat in England.More than 1000 deaths have been attributed to the heatwave in those countries as a landscape parched by drought allowed temperatures over Europe to reach new highs. Heatwaves are considered to be among the most dangerous extreme weather events because they linger over broad regions at length.
The meeting was overshadowed by a gas shortage caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has forced some European nations to resume burning coal for energy, prompting increased emissions.
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