Southern Europe faces record-breaking hot weather
A heatwave is hammering across regions of southern Europe and north-west Africa, with potentially record-breaking temperatures in the future days.
Temperatures are predicted to exceed 40C (104F) in territories of Spain, France, Greece, Croatia and Turkey.
Parts of Southern Europe swept by heatwaves:
In Italy, temperatures could go as high as 48.8C (119.8F). A red alert notice has been given for ten cities, including Rome, Bologna and Florence. On Tuesday, a guy in his forties passed away after tumbling in northern Italy.
Italian press said that the 44-year-old employee was painting zebra crossing lines in the city of Lodi, near Milan, before he tumbled from the heat. He was rushed to the hospital, where he subsequently died.
“We are facing an unbearable heatwave,” Italian politician Nicola Fratoianni wrote. “Maybe it’s the case that in the hottest hours, all the useful precautions are taken to avoid tragedies like today’s one in Lodi.”
People have been urged to consume at least two litres of water a day and to avoid coffee and liquor, which are dehydrating.
One group of travellers on the streets of Rome told the media news agency they were using sprinklers and thermal water to keep themselves relaxed.
“We’re trying to survive,” stated Mariko Desso, who was visiting from the southern city of Bari. A few visitors to the nation have already collapsed from heatstroke, including a British male outside the Colosseum in Rome.
The Cerberus heatwave – called by the Italian Meteorological Society after the three-headed monster that stars in Dante’s Inferno – is predicted to get extreme conditions in the following few days.
Spain has been boiling for days in temperatures of up to 45C, and overnight temperatures in much of the nation did not fall below 25C.
Aliseda, in the western region of Cáceres, recorded temperatures of 35.8C at midnight, according to the national meteorological office Aemet. It was 33C simultaneously in Almadén, in the central region of Ciudad Real.
