Southern Europe will be affected in the coming days by the second heat wave in the space of a week. After the Cerberus anticyclone, Italy, Greece, Spain and other Mediterranean countries will be hit by the Charon high pressure atmospheric system.
The two anticyclones, named after two characters from Greek mythology – Charon, the boatman who transported souls to the hell of Hades, and Cerberus, the three-headed dog who guarded the door to the world of the dead – put on alert red to several cities.
The World Meteorological Organization predicts that this week temperatures on the European continent will reach the highest values in history, with thermometers exceeding 45ºC in several Italian cities.
Mediterranean countries continue to cook in an intense heat wave and temperature records may be broken. Heed warnings and tips from national meteorologists to stay safe. track map @CopernicusECMWF #StateOfClimate
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– World Meteorological Organization (@WMO) July 17, 2023
Also in the western, southern and southeastern United States, more than 80 million people are affected by a heat wave described as “suffocating” by weather services. In California, the thermometers in Death Valley reached 53ºC this Sunday.
Globally, June was the warmest month on record, according to the European agency Copernicus and the US agencies NASA and NOAA, and the first week of July was also the hottest on record, according to preliminary data from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). ).
According to a recent study in the scientific journal Nature Medicine, last summer high temperatures caused more than 60,000 deaths in Europe, the majority in Italy, Greece, Spain and Portugal.
Source: TSF
