Europe’s temperature touches records

Temperatures are expected to reach record levels in France and Britain on Monday, reaching 40 degrees Celsius, against the backdrop of a heat wave that has dominated Western Europe for days.

He described Monday as “the hottest day in the history of France, as the maximum temperature in all regions will exceed 30 degrees Celsius, while it will range between 38 and 40 degrees in a large part of the country.”

In this context, the Meteorological Service “Meteo France” warned that “the heat is increasing and the heat is extending to the entire country,” expecting record levels of temperature to be recorded, especially in the west and southwest of the country.

The Meteorological Authority also indicated that the temperature in some areas of the southwest may reach 44 degrees Celsius on Monday, followed by a “severe hot night.”

It was reported that the forty-fifth heat wave that has hit France since 1947, will reach its “peak on the Atlantic front of the country, especially in the region of Brittany, which has been protecting it until now.”

Moreover, the national “Brief Air” platform for air quality forecasts conveyed expectations that this heat wave will also be accompanied by record levels of air pollution, with an expected worsening Monday in the concentration of ozone, especially in the Atlantic region and southeast France, according to.

In the United Kingdom, the Meteorological Authority issued the first “red” warning related to the extreme heat, which means that there is a “risk to life”, and the temperature may exceed forty degrees Celsius in southern England for the first time on Monday and Tuesday, according to warnings, “Met Office”.

It was pointed out in this regard that the British government was accused of “neglecting this situation on Sunday after resigned Prime Minister Boris Johnson missed a crisis meeting on the matter at Government House, while Justice Minister Dominic Raab seemed to welcome the expectation that the temperature for the first time would exceed 40 degrees Celsius in England.”

The heat wave that first passed through Spain caused deaths, as a man died, according to the emergency services, “a man in his fifties on Sunday due to the heat, with his body temperature exceeding forty degrees Celsius in Torrejon de Ardoz, near Madrid, while a sixty-year-old cleaning worker died in Madrid for the reasons.” Same Saturday.

On Sunday, temperatures in Madrid reached 39 degrees Celsius, 39.7 degrees in Seville in the south of the country and 43.4 in Don Benito near Badajoz in the west.

This heat wave is the second recorded in Europe within a month, while the increase in “these phenomena is due to the direct repercussions of climate warming, according to scientists, as greenhouse gas emissions increase their strength, duration and frequency as well.”

This high temperature caused “forest fires, in which several members of the rescue and firefighting services were killed, the last of whom was a firefighter who died of burns he sustained in the province of Zamora in northwestern Spain,” while fires in France, Portugal, Spain and Greece destroyed thousands of hectares of forest and forced A large number of residents and tourists to leave their places of residence.