The four corners of the globe continue to record sharp increases in temperature as the planet experienced its hottest June on record.
The planet is overheating. Record temperatures are expected around the world on Saturday, from Europe to China to the United States, illustrating once again the seriousness of global warming.
From Saturday, Italy is expected to experience a heat wave, with historic temperature records expected in the coming days. The Ministry of Health has issued a red alert notice, valid all weekend, for several central cities, from Rome to Bologna, from Florence to Pescara.
In the capital, temperatures could rise to 40°C on Monday, then 42 or 43°C on Tuesday, breaking the previous record of 40.5°C recorded in the capital in August 2007. The north of the peninsula should not not be spared with 38°C expected Tuesday in Milan.
Heat accentuated by climate change
Spain, southern and eastern France, Germany and Poland are also facing a large heat wave. In Germany, over a large part of the country, temperatures could thus rise to 38 degrees, according to a press release from the German meteorological service.
In the Mediterranean, Greece is forced for the second consecutive day to close the Acropolis of Athens during the hottest hours.
If temperatures of 40°C to 41°C are expected, “the true temperature felt (…) by the body is considerably higher” at the top of the Acropolis, justified on Friday the Greek Minister of Culture, Lina Mendoni.
North Africa is also affected. In Morocco, which has been experiencing a series of heat waves since the beginning of the summer, a red heat alert has been issued for several provinces.
“It is a phenomenon which is not exceptional in the Mediterranean but which is particularly intense this year”, explains on BFMTV Alain Mazaud, climatologist.
“Global warming accentuates these intense events which will last longer and occur over a longer season. That is to say that the heat waves will arrive earlier and end later”, underlines the specialist.
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In Asia, several provinces in southern and southeast China will experience high temperatures over the weekend, reaching 35 to 40 C, according to the Central Meteorological Observatory. In parts of the northwest, cities could even exceed 40°C. Parts of eastern Japan are also expected to reach 38-39C on Sunday and Monday, according to the local forecaster.
On the other side of the globe, in the southern United States, tens of millions of Americans from California to Texas experienced dangerously high temperatures on Friday, which are expected to peak over the weekend. Phoenix, the capital of Arizona, recorded its 15th straight day above 43 degrees on Friday, according to the US Weather Services (NWS).
In Death Valley (California), mercury could equal or even exceed the highest air temperature ever reliably measured on Earth, or 54.4 ° C recorded at the same place in 2020 and 2021, according to several experts.
Globally, the month of June was the hottest ever measured, according to the European Copernicus and American NASA and NOAA agencies. Then, the first full week of July was in turn the hottest on record, according to preliminary data from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Heat is one of the deadliest weather events, the WMO said. Last summer, in Europe alone, high temperatures caused more than 60,000 deaths, according to a recent study.
2023-07-15 10:46:20
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