Temperatures have reached 45°C (113°F) in the inland regions of Greece and neighboring countries and are expected to remain high during the week’s high.
Turkey has expanded its demand for external assistance against deadly forest fires along its sea coast for the sixth day, and has been promised water launch aircraft from the European Union. The fires have been blamed for the deaths of another 8 people in recent days.
In Greece, staff with physical fitness problems were allowed to leave work, while coal-fired power stations that had to be retired were put back into operation on the national grid, under pressure due to the widespread use of air conditioning.
Dann Mitchell, a professor of climatology at the University of Bristol, said the heatwave in south-east Europe “is by no means unforeseen and the maximum maximum is likely to be reinforced by man-made climate change”.
“The number of occasions of excessive heat around the world is expanding year after year, with 10 years recorded since 2005,” Mitchell told The Associated Press.
“This year we have witnessed a number of vital occasions, adding a dramatic heatwave in western Canada and the United States, which was excessive even for existing degrees of climate change,” Mitchell said. “These black swan occasions have happened, they are still sitting in front of the bottom of warmer weather, so they are even more deadly.
As the weather moved south, Italy and Croatia suffered storms and wildfires in other parts of the country.
A small tornado in Istria, on croatia’s northern Adriatic coast, toppled trees that destroyed several cars, hours before a giant chimney exploded outside the gates of the nearby Trogir beach hotel, threatening homes and local power supply.
About thirty more people were treated for mild smoke inhalation off the Italian coast of the city of Pescara, after flames devastated a nearby pine forest.
“This pine forest domain is a nature reserve and is absolutely destroyed. It makes you cry when you see it. The environmental damage is incalculable. It’s the center of the city, its green lung and it’s destroyed,” said Pescara Mayor Carlo. Masi.
Cyprus, which is recovering from a chimney in a primary forest last month, kept planes speling water on patrol to respond to chimneys when they exploded.
“If you don’t react immediately with a big reaction to an epidemic, things can get temporarily complicated,” forest service leader Charalambos Alexandrou told state media.
“They are bellicose. “
——— Colleen Barry reported from Milan, Italy. They contributed Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey, Ayse Wieting in Istanbul, Dusan Stojanovic in Belgrade, Serbia and Menelaos Hadjicostis in Nicosia, Cyprus.
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