Europe Heatwave: two dead in Italy, scare the same amount of Europe

Two people died in Italy while the temperature continues to rise in the midst of an intense heat wave throughout Europe.

In Bologna, a 47-year-old died after he fell ill on a construction site, while a 70-year-old man was reported while overflowing in a tourist refuge in western Turin.

Elsewhere on the continent, tens of thousands of people have been evacuated because of forest fires in western Turkey, while the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris is closed due to the heat wave.

Parts of Spain and Portugal registered their highest temperatures ever in June, with 46c registered in El Granado in southwestern Spain, a day after records were broken in Mora in Central Portugal.

The Spanish Aemet Meteorological Agency said that various places on the Iberian peninsula 43c had covered, but a postponement in temperatures was on the way of Thursday.

The nocturnal temperatures that were recorded at night until Tuesday achieved 28 ° C in Sevilla and 27C in Barcelona.

In Turkey, rescuers evacuated more than 50,000 people – mostly from the western province of Izmir – while firefighters continued to release hundreds of forest fires that had broken out in recent days.

Fires have also swept parts of the provinces of Bilecik, Hatay, Sakarya and Manisa.

Minister of Forestry, Ibrahim Yumakli, said that in the past three days emergency cases had responded to 263 forest fires.

In France, many cities have experienced their hottest day and night on Monday before June, but predictors said that the heat wave would expect that he peaks on Tuesday.

Climate minister Agnès Panneer-Runacher called an “unprecedented” situation.

For the first time in five years, the Paris region has activated a red warning, along with 15 other French regions. The Ministry of Education has said that 1,350 public schools will be partially or completely closed on Tuesday.

A lecture of 46.6 C (115.9F) was registered on Sunday in Mora, Portugal, about 60 miles east of Lisbon. Portuguese weather officials worked to confirm whether that marked a new record for June.

In Italy, the Tuscany region has seen the hospital admissions by 20%, according to local reports.

Italians in 21 of the 27 cities are subject to the highest heat alert and 13 regions, including Lombardy and Emilia, it is advised not to go outside during the hottest periods of the day.

In Lombardy, work is prohibited outside from 12.30 to 16:00 on hot days on construction sites, roads and farms until September.

Temperatures in Greece have been approaching 40 ° C for a few days and forest fires touch various coastal cities near the capital Athens Destroying houses and forcing people to evacuate.

Parts of the UK were just shy to be one of the most popular June days ever on Monday.

The highest British temperature of the day was registered at Heathrow Airport in London at 33.1 ° C. Meanwhile, Wimbledon registered a temperature of 32.9 ° C, the hottest opening day of the tennis tournament on Record.

In Germany, the meteorological service of the country warned that the temperatures could reach nearly 38 ° C on Tuesday and Wednesday – otherwise possibly record -breaking temperatures.

The heat wave lowered levels in the Rhine River – an important shipping route – which limits the amount of freight ships, can transport and increase freight costs.

Countries in and around the Balkans have also struggled with the intense heat, although the temperatures have begun to cool down. Wild burning fires were also reported in Montenegro.

Although the heat wave is a potential health problem, it also influences the environment. Higher temperatures in the Adriatic Sea encourage invasive species such as the toxic Lionfish, while they also cause further stress on alpine glaciers that are While shrinking against record rates.

The human rights leader of the UN, Volker Turk, warned on Monday that the heat wave emphasized the need for climate adjustment – to rely on practices and energy sources, such as fossil fuels, which are the main cause of climate change.

“Rising temperatures, rising seas, floods, drought and forest fires threat our rights to life, on health, on a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, and much more,” he told the UN human rights council.

Heat waves are increasingly common because of the man -made climate change, according to the UN intergovernmental panel on climate change.

Extremely hot weather will happen more often – and even more intense – while the planet stays warm, it has said.

Richard Allan, professor of climate science at the University of Reading in the UK, explained that rising greenhouse gas levels make it more difficult for the planet to lose excess heat.

“The warmer, thirsty atmosphere is more effective when drying the soil, which means that heat waves intensify, with moderate heat events now becoming extreme.”