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Greece’s summer season has got off to a tragic start with its earliest heatwave on record causing several deaths this month. At least six tourists are known to have died in the searing temperatures, which also shut schools and sites including the Acropolis. One firefighter also lost his life while battling a wildfire last week, as blazes broke out across the country “almost every 10 minutes” according to the fire service. Temperatures in Athens are currently below the official heatwave threshold of 38C, but little respite is expected for the rest of the summer. There is no doubt that the Medit...
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Heatwave warnings are already coming thick and fast across Europe this summer, as experts predict another record-hot year driven by climate change. But it can be hard to gauge how dangerous they are to you in particular. A new tool seeks to bridge that gap by forecasting how likely you are to die when hot weather hits different places in Europe. The data is based on age and sex. Around 70,000 people died from heat-related causes during summer 2022 in Europe, according to researchers at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). The same team has taken past mortality data and combine...
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Temperatures in Romania's capital city of Bucharest exceeded 35 degrees over the weekend, forcing the city's workers to adapt around the higher temperatures. Employers took special measures for workers in restaurants, who were carrying out their shifts in extreme temperatures. Chef Justian Manea told Euronews, "It is probably 50 degrees near the grill, I haven't counted. But we are ok, we are taking turns. We will manage to get through this heatwave." A heatwave has been recorded across Romania, including in the southern region of Prahova, where experts have warned that 4,000 people will face ...
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Cloud modifying techniques used to cool the climate in California could eventually push heatwaves towards Europe, according to a new study. If global warming reaches 2C above pre-industrial by 2050, cloud modification could majorly warm almost all of Europe except the Iberian Peninsula. The research showed the biggest increases in Scandinavia, Central Europe and Eastern Europe. The study’s authors say their findings are concerning because there are next to no regulations in place for this kind of local climate modification and the consequences could be hard to predict. “Our study provides the ...
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As the Balkans baked in temperatures hovering or exceeding 40 degrees Celsius in June, leaving up to six foreigners dead or missing, the Greek government is warning tourists of the dangers associated with the extreme heat. Greek Minister of Health Adonis Georgiadis said holidaymakers need to be "very careful" while visiting the country as it grapples with soaring temperatures, and to not take "unnecessary risks". "We have had cases of foreign travellers who lost their lives in Greece. They lost their lives because they underestimated the phenomenon," he told reporters at a press conference. Wa...
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A major hours long power outage hit much of the Balkans on Friday as the southern European region sweltered in an early heat wave that sent temperatures soaring to more than 40 degrees Celsius. Montenegrin authorities said that an outage that lasted for several hours in the country's power distribution system left almost the entire nation without electricity. Similar problems were reported in the coastal part of Croatia, and in Bosnia and Albania. Nada Pavicevic, a spokeswoman for Montenegro's state power distribution company, described the outage as a “disturbance of regional proportion,” and...
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Human-caused climate change made this month's killer heatwaves in Mexico, Central American and the US southwest even warmer and 35 times more likely, a new study has found. Sizzling daytime temperatures that triggered cases of heat stroke in parts of the United States were 1.4C hotter because of the warming from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas, World Weather Attribution, a collection of scientists that run rapid and non-peer reviewed climate attribution studies, calculated on Thursday. “It's an oven here; you can't stay here,” says 82-year-old Margarita Salazar Pérez of Veracruz, Mexi...
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Winds from North Africa are pushing up the temperatures in southern Europe, including in Italy and Balkan countries. Eight cities in Italy were issued heat warnings – with temperatures of more than 39 degrees Celsius anticipated in some parts of the country. Last week, Greek authorities were forced to shut down the Acropolis in Athens as temperatures exceeded 40 degrees in much of central and southern Greece while temperatures along the Turkish coast were 12 degrees higher than usual for the season. The risk of heatwaves at the Paris Olympic games has left organisers sweating about the safety ...
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As Europe swelters in an early heatwave, concerns are mounting about what Paris’s weather will be like during the upcoming Olympics. The event, kicking off on 24 July, could become the hottest Games on record, posing risks of serious illness and even death to athletes. A new report, Rings of Fire: Heat Risks at the 2024 Paris Olympics, describes the 34C temperatures at the 2021 Games in Tokyo as “a window into an alarming, escalating norm for Summer Olympics”. “Competitors vomited and fainted at finish lines, wheelchairs were deployed to carry athletes away from sun-scorched arenas and the fea...
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Greece is bracing itself for what is expected to be a long wildfire season spurred by an unprecedentedly hot June, according to the country's national meteorological service. Firefighters were called to put out a blaze that erupted in the southern suburb of Athens, Vari, which started in an uninhabited area covered by olive trees and shrubs. Additionally, authorities issued text message evacuation alerts to the two nearby settlements of Lambrika and Kitsi. Although no injuries were reported, fire service spokesman Vassilis Vathrakogiannis said the blaze spread quickly due to strong winds. "We ...
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