2023-07-18 10:56:16
12:56
Gérald Darmanin announces the dispatch of personnel and planes to Greece
18 personnel and three planes will be sent to Greece by Civil Security to fight the fires which are ravaging several forests in the Athens region, announced Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin on Twitter this Tuesday.
According to the minister, this initiative was set up “within the framework of the civil protection mechanism of the European Union” and “at the request of the President of the Republic”.
12:42
These regions of Europe where temperature records might be broken
In Italy, the island of Sardinia should see its temperatures approach 48°C on Tuesday. Italy already holds the absolute record for the hottest temperature recorded in Europe with 48.8°C recorded in Syracuse, Sicily. Temperatures might also rise to 42 or 43°C in Rome, breaking the 2007 record of 40°C.
In Spain, 44°C are expected in the province of Murcia as well as in Cordoba, Andalusia (47.4°C had been reached in Montoro, near Cordoba in August 2021 highlights TF1). In some regions, temperatures are currently 10 to 15°C higher than normal for the season.
In France, several Pyrénées-Orientales municipalities should experience temperatures approaching or even exceeding 40°C. In Isère, the mercury should stop at one or two degrees from this threshold. We detail the temperature records that might fall today in this article.
11:52
In Spain, several regions on alert for “extreme danger”
Several Spanish regions were placed on red alert on Tuesday due to the “extreme danger” induced by the heat wave, while firefighters continue to fight a fire that ravaged 3,500 hectares in the Canary archipelago.
According to’Spanish Meteorological Agency (Aemet)temperatures should fluctuate between 38°C and 42°C in much of the center of the Iberian Peninsula, and reach 43°C or even 44°C in the east of the country, particularly in Catalonia, Aragon and the Balearic archipelago.
11:49
UN warns world must prepare for more intense heat waves
The world must prepare for more intense heat waves, the UN warned on Tuesday, as the northern hemisphere approaches a peak in heat waves.
“These phenomena will continue to intensify and the world must prepare for more intense heat waves,” said John Nairn, expert with the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO), during a press briefing. in Geneva.
10:38
High temperatures in Europe: a “heat dome” due to an anticyclone and accentuated by global warming
According to Patrick Marlière, meteorologist, director of Agate meteo and guest on BFMTV this Tuesday, the heat affecting Europe is due to “the conjuncture of two elements”.
He explains that there is “first, a powerful anticyclone which is installed on the west of the Mediterranean basin and on the west of the Atlantic”. This phenomenon causes “high pressures which have the effect of blocking the hot air which rises from the Sahara and which, by accumulation, causes this heat dome”. The operation of this phenomenon is detailed in this article.
It is as such a “situation almost normal in its configuration”, explains the meteorologist. “On the other hand, what is less so is the impact of climate change and global warming which accentuates the phenomenon”.
9:56
Occitania, Provence, Corsica: high heat, up to 40°C, expected in several regions of southern France
France is not spared by the heat wave which is currently affecting many countries bordering the Mediterranean.
According to Meteo-France forecasts, it might be 35°C in the Occitanie, PACA and Rhône-Alpes regions, or even 40°C in the hinterland of Provence, Languedoc and Corsica. The details of the temperatures in France can be read in this article.
Seven departments are on heatwave orange vigilance: Alpes-Maritimes, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Vaucluse, Var, Pyrénées-Orientales, Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.
9:15
“Not normal temperatures” this summer: the Minister of Ecology contradicts that of Agriculture
“The temperatures we are experiencing at the moment are not normal temperatures”, reaffirmed the Minister of Ecological Transition Christophe Béchu on RMC on Tuesday.
This heat is “the proof of this climate disruption which unfortunately is accelerating”, underlined the minister
His Agriculture counterpart, Marc Fesneau, was harshly criticized on Saturday by climatologists for having assured that current temperatures were “fairly normal for a summer”, before backtracking.
8:54
Patrick Pelloux explains that “a heat wave inevitably means more people in the emergency room”
Guest of RMC-BFMTV, the president of the association of hospital emergency physicians of France Patrick Pelloux explains that, in the context of the heat wave which is currently hitting southern Europe, “what is to be feared [en France] is that this heat wave is rising rapidly”, which would have consequences for the health of the population.
A heat wave, “it is necessarily more people in the emergency room because everyone arrives in the emergency room”, estimates the doctor.
He explains that the people most at risk are those from “extreme poverty, athletes or in any case people who make an effort, and the most fragile, those who have health problems”.
8:37
High temperatures expected in southern Europe on Tuesday
Hello and welcome to this live broadcast dedicated to the heat wave that is currently hitting southern Europe and more generally the Mediterranean basin.
The mercury continues to approach, or even exceed, 40°C in several regions of Europe and in particular in Italy, where it was already 39°C in the shade in Rome on Monday. The peak of heat is expected this Tuesday in Sardinia, an island where the mercury might approach 48°C. The current European record is 48.8°C, recorded in Sicily in 2021.
Some Spanish regions are currently 15°C above normal for the seasons. In Greece where several fires broke out on Monday.
1689678544
#LIVE #Hot #weather #southern #Europe #temperature #records #expected #Tuesday
