1/7/2025–|Last update: 23:52 (Mecca time)
The early heat wave, which strikes western and southwestern Europe, has expanded in the north, amid warnings of record heat launched by Portugal, Greece and Croatia to Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Rihafusura United Nations The phenomenon as the “silent killer”, the World Meteorological Organization of its meteorology, said that “as a result of climate change caused by human activity, extreme temperatures have become more frequent and severe, and this is something that we have to learn to coexist with it.”
“Every death because of the heat is unnecessary … We have knowledge and we have tools and we can save lives,” said organization spokeswoman Claire Nolice.
“This event is unusual … it comes in a very early period of summer and probably exacerbated the climate change,” says climate scientist at the European “Coeprinkus” Observatory, Samanta Burgis.
Since Tuesday afternoon, Paris, known for its urban density and the lack of green spaces, has become in the event of a maximum of red degree, for the first time in five years.
With a temperature of 38 degrees, the use of polluted cars was banned and about 1900 schools closed, as well as the upper part of the Eiffel Tower, and the hikers are also open at night.
In Lyon, southeast of France, a bad -day union at Edwar Irio Hospital denounced, “Patients who are in fragile and elderly situations in most cases, are placed in rooms without air conditioners … with a few water sprays, air fans and water fountains out of service most of them.”
At a temperature of 38 in the Netherlands, schools were closed in Rotterdam and raised their doors at noon, while the intensification of heat in the Belgian capital pushed Brussels To close the famous Atomium teacher on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Spain and Portugal have recorded a record heat for the month of June of 46 degrees Celsius Saturday and Sunday.