A fierce heatwave is sweeping throughout southern Europe, with warnings of record-breaking temperatures
Temperatures are anticipated to surpass 40C (104F) in components of Spain, France, Greece, Croatia and Turkey.
In Italy, temperatures might attain as excessive as 48.8C (119.8F). A pink alert warning has been issued for 10 cities, together with Rome, Bologna and Florence.
The Cerberus heatwave – named by the Italian Meteorological Society after the three-headed monster that options in Dante’s Inferno – is predicted to convey extra excessive situations within the subsequent few days.
It is not simply Europe that’s scorching. This summer season has seen temperature data smashed in components of Canada and the US in addition to throughout a swathe of Asia together with in India and China.
Sea temperatures within the Atlantic have hit document highs whereas Antarctic sea ice is on the lowest extent ever recorded.
And it’ll get hotter.
A climate sample known as El Niño is growing within the tropical Pacific. It tends to drive up temperatures by round 0.2C on common.
Add within the roughly 1.1C that local weather change has pushed common temperatures up by worldwide and it’s perilously near the 1.5C threshold the world has agreed to attempt to maintain world temperatures under.
Reeta Chakrabarti presents BBC Information at Ten reporting by local weather editor Justin Rowlatt.
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