The authorities advise to drink at least 2 liters of water per day
Heat wave Cerberus has hit southern Europe and northern Africa, with record temperatures expected to be measured in the coming days, the BBC reported.
Cerberus, named by the Italian Meteorological Society after the three-headed monster that appears in Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, is expected to bring heat of over 40°C to parts of Spain, France, Greece, Turkey and Croatia. In Italy, temperatures could reach 48.8°, with a red code for dangerous heat being issued in a number of cities.
“We are facing an unbearable heat wave,” announced Italian politician Nicola Bratoianni, calling for “all useful precautions to be taken to
to be avoided tragedy
like the one in Lodi”. Earlier this week, a man in his 40s died there after collapsing from the heat. A woman covers herself with a shirt to protect herself from the strong sun near the Colosseum. PHOTO: Reuters
People are advised to drink at least two liters of water daily and to avoid dehydrating liquids such as coffee and alcohol. There have already been cases of travelers suffering heat stroke, including a Brit outside the Colosseum in Rome.
In Spain, the heat reached 45°, and in most parts of the country, even at night, the thermometers do not fall below 25°.
On the island of Majorca, it was already 37° at 4am on Wednesday, and the emergency hotline there has had at least one call a day about heatstroke since May. In Andalusia, the authorities decided to open a hotline for those affected by the heat, and since the beginning of June, more than 54,000 calls have been made.
In Extremadura, satellites from the EU “Copernicus” program reported that the temperature of
the earthly surface there has reached 60°
in Tuesday. “The weather is becoming more erratic, the difference between the seasons is getting smaller,” says a resident of Madrid. A boy dives into the sea during a heat wave in Naples. PHOTO: Reuters
And while Cerberus weakens, the next heat wave, called Charon – the name of the boatman who ferries souls to the underworld – is expected to raise temperatures to 43° in Rome and 47° on the island of Sardinia. The heatwave also affected Prague, where temperatures could reach 36° at the weekend, well above the July average of 24°.
A study by the ISGlobal institute this week revealed that more than 61,000 people died in Europe in 2022 from the heat, with fears that there will be many more this summer.
2023-07-13 19:15:00
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