Update
(1240ET):
Temperatures were even hotter than expected across Europe today
and, as
Accuweather reports, the
extreme heat wave is suspected of killing several people as it set an
all-time high in France.
The
highest temperature ever measured across France in the entirety of
record keeping was set on Friday afternoon. Temperatures
soared to 45.8 C (114.4 F) at Gallargues-le-Montueux in southeastern
France,
exceeding the nation's previous all-time record high of 44.1 C (111.4
F) at Conqueyrac on Aug. 12, 2003.
In
neighboUring Spain, the heat has been blamed on the deaths of several
elderly people as hundreds
of firefighters are battling a major wildfire near Tarragona in
northeastern Spain.
About 10,000 acres of forest and vegetation are being threatened by
the blaze, which has been described by regional government officials
as one of the worst in 20 years. More than 50 people have been
evacuated.
CNN
reports that the
fire may have been started by an "improperly managed" pile
of manure that self-combusted, similar
to the threat that wet hay bales pose.
Sadly,
Europeans will have to wait until Monday for the start of any
relief...
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Record-breaking
heat scorches central Europe as many braced Thursday for temperatures
above 100 F.
Wednesday
was one of the most
sizzling days on record across Europe with
average June temperatures and all-time temperature records
broken, reported
AccuWeather.
Germany,
Poland, and the Czech Republic recorded its highest temperatures ever
during June.
Temperatures
were 100.8 F at Radzyń, Poland, on Wednesday, while Coschen station
(Berlin-Brandenburg) printed 101.5 F in Germany. However,
temperatures in Germany didn't surpass the 104.5 F all-time high, set
in Kitzingen on August 2015.
Czech
Republic, Doksany recorded 102 F, hitting an all-time high for the
country that was previously set at 100.8 F at Brno-Žabovřesky in
June 2000.
Governments
across the European Union warned citizens earlier this week about how
the heat wave could cause harmful air, increase health-related
illnesses at hospitals, and overload power grids.
The
heat wave blasted central Europe on Thursday and will produce 104 F
temperatures in France, Spain, and Greece on Friday.
French
Health Minister Agnes Buzyn told people to prepare for intense heat
and expressed
some irritation that some aren't taking government advice of staying
indoors during the heat wave.
"We
see citizens who are quite irresponsible and continue to go jogging
between midday and 2:00 pm," she told France 2 TV.
Grospierres,
France, located in the southern region of the country, hit 107.6 F on
Thursday, which was a record-breaking high.
About
two hours south of Grospierres, located on the Mediterranean coast,
is Narbonne, which recorded highs near 106.7 F.
Friday
could be absolute hell for France, as
temperatures are expected to approach 110 F across the southeast
interior of the country.
Final
exams for students in France were delayed a week because of the heat
wave, while French President Emmanuel Macron promised,“The
whole government is mobilized.”
In
France, several elderly swimmers died, apparently of “thermal
shock,” after entering the cool seawater after broiling on land.
In
2003, caught unprepared by a brutal heat wave, an estimated 20,000
people died in Europe, most of them in France.
Heat
waves are frequent in Europe; it was just that this one was very
early in the season.
As
WaPo reports, newspapers
in Germany published guides on whether the heat meant that employees
could simply skip work (Answer:
No) and if wearing shorts at work was acceptable amid the heat wave
(Answer: It depends).
In
Switzerland, the heat wave also coincided with the first weeks of
basic training for the country’s new military conscripts.
To
prevent the recruits from overheating, Swiss officials require them
to regularly fill in forms to document their hourly water
consumption, an official told Swiss media.
In
Germany, heated rows broke out over how much nudity to tolerate in
the midst of the heat wave. After a group of women took off their
bikini tops in Munich last weekend to bathe along the banks of the
city’s Isar River, five security guards ordered them to put their
tops back on, citing local public nudity prohibitions.
In
response, about two dozen women also took their tops off “out of
solidarity,”
according
to the German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung. The security guards
proceeded to call the police, who insisted the women cover their
breasts.
It
wasn't just the ladies. In eastern Germany, officers pulled over a
naked man on a moped; apparently, it was so hot outside so he had to
take off his clothes and jump on his moped to catch a breeze
Additionally,
law enforcement in Germany have decreased speed limits on several
parts of the Autobahn due to fears the hot weather could cause
roadways to warp as
vehicles pass over..
Amid
the heat, the worst wildfires in two decades broke out across
Catalonia, Spain.
Hundreds of firefighters in Spain's Catalonia are battling the biggest wildfire in the last two decades, as Europe suffers scorching temperatures https://www.trtworld.com/article/27844
Climatologists
told Associated Press that weather is becoming more volatile making
heat waves more common.
"This
increase in heat extremes is just as predicted by climate science as
a consequence of global warming caused by the increasing greenhouse
gases from burning coal, oil, and gas," Stefan Rahmstorf, a
climatologist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research,
said.
Numerous
studies have shown that extreme heat waves could be connected to
human-caused global warming - while none of that has been officially
confirmed - we certainly must say that weather across the world has
become more volatile than the past.
Meanwhile I had to chuckle. RUPTLY set up a camera and reported people bathing in a river for a couple of hours. Like watching paint dry? It does allow climate change deniers a chance to vent their prejudices.
LIVE: 'Hell on Earth': Public in Southern France Gets Ready to Suffer Record Heat Wave
CNN
reports that the
fire may have been started by an "improperly managed" pile
of manure that self-combusted, similar
to the threat that wet hay bales pose.
Sadly,
Europeans will have to wait until Monday for the start of any
relief...
Germany,
Poland, and the Czech Republic recorded its highest temperatures ever
during June.
About
two hours south of Grospierres, located on the Mediterranean coast,
is Narbonne, which recorded highs near 106.7 F.
Friday
could be absolute hell for France, as
temperatures are expected to approach 110 F across the southeast
interior of the country.
Final
exams for students in France were delayed a week because of the heat
wave, while French President Emmanuel Macron promised,“The
whole government is mobilized.”
In
2003, caught unprepared by a brutal heat wave, an estimated 20,000
people died in Europe, most of them in France.
It
wasn't just the ladies. In eastern Germany, officers pulled over a
naked man on a moped; apparently, it was so hot outside so he had to
take off his clothes and jump on his moped to catch a breeze
Amid
the heat, the worst wildfires in two decades broke out across
Catalonia, Spain.
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