ArrowRight Meteorologists say the unusually early heat wave is a sign of what’s to come as global warming continues, moving up in the calendar the temperatures that Europe would previously have seen only in July and August. In France, some 18 million people woke to heat wave alerts affecting about a third of the country Friday. France has introduced numerous measures to cope with extreme summer temperatures following a deadly heat wave in 2003 that killed about 15,000 people. Germany’s national weather service DWD predicted that the big sweat would continue over the weekend, as the heat moves into central and Eastern Europe. The current heat wave in Europe started almost a week ago in Spain, where temperatures reached 43 C (109.4F).

Source: The North Africa Journal June 17, 2022 13:02 UTC