The late-April heat wave in southern Europe and northern Africa was made 100 times more likely because of climate change, the study found.
Indeed, across the world, climate change has made heat waves more common, longer and hotter, scientists say.
Using published peer-reviewed methods, scientists in the new study looked at how human-induced climate change altered the likelihood and intensity of the Mediterranean heat wave. The analysis examined the average of the maximum temperature for three consecutive days in April across southern Spain and Portugal, most of Morocco and the northwest part of Algeria.
The extreme heat came on top of a historical multi-year drought in those nations, which can exacerbate high temperatures, the scientists said.Though death data from the April heat wave is not yet available, heat waves in 2022 contributed to nearly 4,000 deaths in Spain and more than 1,000 deaths in Portugal, the study said.
And although those deaths came in summer, the fact that temperatures soared so high in April was concerning:
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