There is a chance that temperatures could breach the highest-ever recorded in the U.K. The office issued its first-ever “red warning” of extreme heat for Monday and Tuesday, when temperatures in southern England are forecast to reach 37 Celsius (98.6 Fahrenheit).
Heat is invisible, it is silent and it kills slowly, and people are not aware of it,” said Kathy Baughman McLeod, director of the Arsht-Rockefeller Resilience Center of the Atlantic Council.īritain’s Met Office weather agency warned Friday that record temperatures expected next week pose a risk of “serious illness or danger to life.” “Climate-driven extreme heat is killing more people than any other of the climate-driven hazards. Seville became the first city in the world to take part in a pilot project that names and categorizes heatwaves in an effort to raise awareness of the health hazards caused by extreme heat and the precautions citizens should take. The amount of French forest burned in fires this year is already triple that destroyed in 2020, Macron said. “We are living through an exceptionally harsh (summer) season,” French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday during a visit to the government crisis management center at the Interior Ministry in Paris. As the fires stretched into a fourth day Friday, one was partially contained, it said, but warned that hotter temperatures and winds over the weekend could further complicate firefighting efforts. More than 7,000 hectares of land have been consumed by the fires, according to the regional emergency service. The other is in parkland not far from valleys dotted with vineyards that have struggled with hotter, drier weather than usual this year that authorities have linked to climate change. One of the French fires is in woodlands just south of the Atlantic resort town of Arcachon, a major attraction for visitors during the summer season. In France, 1,000 firefighters and 10 water-dumping planes contended with high temperatures and strong winds to try to contain two wildfires in the Bordeaux region of southwestern France that have forced the evacuation of 11,300 people and ravaged pine forests near the Atlantic coast. Meanwhile, Portuguese authorities said a July national high of 47 degrees Celsius (117 Fahrenheit) was registered in the northern town of Pinhao on Wednesday, the hottest day of the year so far. More than 30,000 hectares (74,000 acres) of land has been burned, it said, most in the past week. Portuguese state television RTP reported Friday that the area burned this year has already exceeded the total for 2021. More than 160 people have been injured and hundreds of people evacuated from towns this week.
The pilot was the first fatal victim in fires in Portugal so far this year. The country’s Civil Protection Agency said 10 fires were still raging Friday, with ones in the north causing the most concern. More than 3,000 firefighters battled alongside ordinary Portuguese citizens desperate to save their homes from several wildfires that raged across the country, fanned by extreme temperatures and drought conditions. Portugal has been particularly hard hit by wildfires this week. The pilot died while on an operation near the town of Torre de Moncorvo. In a message on his official Twitter account, Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa said, “It was with great dismay that I became aware of the death of the pilot who operated an aircraft that fell this afternoon.” He sent his condolences to the pilot´s family and friends and also expresssed his solidarity and gratefulness to all taking part in the fight against the fires.
The death came as fires continued to rage across Portugal, neighboring Spain and in France. PARIS - The pilot of a Portuguese firefighting plane died when his plane crashed while on a firefighting operation in the northeast of the country Friday. High temperatures and strong winds have complicated firefighting efforts in the region, one of several around Europe scorched by wildfires this season. Several hundred firefighters struggled Friday to contain two wildfires in the Bordeaux region of southwest France that have forced the evacuation of 10,000 people and ravaged more than 7,000 hectares of land. This photo provided Friday Jby the fire brigade of the Gironde region (SDIS 33) shows a wildfire near Landiras, southwestern France, Thursday, July 14, 2022.
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