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"Extreme heat is breaking temperature records across Europe, early measurements
suggest, and driving bigger and stronger wildfires.
In south-west France, records were broken on Monday in Angoulême, Bergerac,
Bordeaux, Saint-Émilion and Saint-Girons. Météo France said the “often
remarkable, even unprecedented, maximum temperatures” in the region were 12C
above the norm for the last few decades.
In Croatia, air temperature records were set in Šibenik, at 39.5C, and
Dubrovnik, at 38.9C, while large forest fires raged along its coasts and ripped
through neighbouring countries in the Balkans.
The day before, Hungary broke its daily maximum temperature record when a
weather station in Körösladány hit 39.9C. The capital, Budapest, also broke its
daily maximum record as it sweltered through 38.7C heat.
Beyond Europe, dozens of temperature records were broken across Canada, and
record-breaking heat above 50C in Iraq was blamed for a nationwide blackout.
The heatwave in southern Europe comes as Nordic countries recover from
unprecedented temperatures above 30C in the Arctic Circle this month.
Bob Ward, a policy director at the Grantham Research Institute, said: “This
summer, like every summer now, has been exceptional in terms of extreme heat
around the world.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
