The “exceptional” heat wave in Europe closes schools, demands healthy -national alerts

Italy has worked in the open air, France rose schools, and Türkiye clashed with forest fires on Tuesday in Europe Heat wave Meteorologists said it is “exceptional” It was very early this year.

Spain confirmed the hottest in June, while the temperatures passed 40 ° C (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in some of its cities on Tuesday. Likewise, the heat was limited to reach 40 degrees Celsius in the Italian city of Trento, while the cities of northern Europe were also swinging.

Copernicus Climate Climate Service in the European Union said that Europe raises its heating in twice the average global speed and is the fastest continent in the world.

“What is exceptional … but unprecedented is the time of the year,” said Claire Nolice, a spokeswoman for the World Meteorological Organization.

She said that Europe was suffering from severe heat rings “which we usually see later in the summer.”

Some countries issued health alerts and labor unions that attributed the death of a building worker near the Italian city of Bologna on Monday to the heat.

Outdoor work was banned in some Italian areas during the most hours of the day, as Italy issued red alerts on the heat wave of 17 cities, including Milan and Rome.

The power outage, which is likely to be caused or aggravated electricity consumption from air conditioners, was reported in the center of Florence and in the northern city of Bergamo. In Sicily, a woman suffering from a heart condition died while walking in the city of Baghra, news agencies said.

In Barcelona, ​​the Spanish city, the authorities were looking for whether the street sweeping of the weekend was linked to heat.

A spokesman for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Communities said that the Red Cross created a “climatic shelter” for the population in Malaga, in southern Spain.

Türkiye continued to fight forest fires that forced the temporary evacuation of about 50,000 people on Monday in areas surrounding the city of Izmir and in the nearby Manisa Province, as well as Hatay in the southeast.

In France, nearly 1900 schools were closed, up from about 200 on Monday. Metio France, the weather forecast, said the heat was appointed to its climax in France on Tuesday at 40-41 degrees Celsius in some areas.

Scientists say that greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels are a cause of climate change, as the removal of forests and industrial practices are other contributing factors. Last year was the most important planet ever.

“We are still hearing about climate change. I think we are definitely feeling it now,” said Omar Bah, a rental worker in London, where temperatures reached 32 degrees Celsius.

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The Spanish Amet said that the Mediterranean recorded 30 degrees Celsius from Spain, six degrees above the seasonal average.

Nolice said that high temperatures in the Mediterranean Sea tend to enhance the maximum temperatures on the territories.

The average temperature in Spain was 23.6 ° C last month. Copernicus said that June may be ranked five fiercely. The Met Office National Weather Service said that England has had the most important June since at least 1884, noting temporary data.

The French railway operator SNCF said that the railway service in Paris Milan has been disabled due to a clay collapse on the French side of the Alps, with no expectation that the full service is not fully restored until mid -July.

The upper floor of the Eiffel Tower was closed, and dozens of disappointments of visitors were closed.

“I tried to carry everything before our departure and the result is nonsense,” said Laya Punes, 42, a Barcelona teacher who booked Eiffel tickets for her family three years ago.

When the temperatures rise, the pools used to build the Eiffel Tower in size and tend slightly, without any effect on its structural safety, according to its website.

The incendiary temperatures raised the risk of field fires, as farmers in France, the largest product of grain in the European Union, begins harvesting this year, as many work throughout the night to avoid peak temperatures this afternoon.

(I participated in additional reports from Emma Farge, Michaella Kapreira, Kate Abnit, Jose Trumps, Rachel Moore, Sudab Car Gupta, Izigi Erkion, William James; writing by Ingred Milan and Michelle Campas; edited by Bernadet Boom and Timothy Herita