Infernal heat waves hit Europe, killing more than 1,000 people in Spain and Portugal alone. Wildfires continue to spread everywhere, leaving firefighters exhausted. For the first time, the British Met Office issued a red alert for extreme high temperatures. On Mondays and Tuesdays, the highest temperature will exceed 40 degrees Celsius. In the past, experts predicted that such high temperatures would not appear until 2050, which is equivalent to extreme high temperatures. Report 28 years earlier .
With water guns and buckets, they splashed at people. The annual water fight in Madrid, Spain started, and the streets were filled with people playing with water to cool off the heat.
Citizen Gonzalez: “The heat is terrible, we’ve been looking for something like this.”
Popular Lima: “I’ve lived here for four years and I haven’t seen anything like this, but it’s amazing.”
Many places in Spain rushed to a rare high temperature of nearly 40 degrees, and a heat wave hit Europe. At least thousands of people in Spain and Portugal were killed by the heat.
Firefighters battled the blaze, which reddened the entire forest, and the high temperature fueled the wildfire. Catalonia dispatched 18 helicopters to put out the fire, and the fire spread all the way to the residential area.
People: “I’m looking at the fire and wind direction. I’m ready at any time. All valuables are packed and put in the car.”
In southwestern France, wildfires are also raging. The fires engulfed more than 10,000 hectares of land and forced at least 1,500 people to evacuate. Large-scale wildfires broke out in the resorts of northeastern Italy, and thick smoke can be seen dozens of kilometers away.
CNN meteorologist Allison Chinchar: “The Met Office has issued a red alert for extreme heat for the first time in the next few days, which means there is a 50% chance that the temperature will exceed 40 degrees Celsius.”
In fact, the forecast model calculated by the British Meteorological Office two years ago, the summer soared to 40 degrees, the time point was 2050, and now it appears 28 years earlier, especially in the United Kingdom, only 5% of the homes have air-conditioning, in the face of this heat wave, Probably more difficult.
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