A cyclist in Turin, Italy cools down as the heat intensifies. Photo: Stefano Guidi/Getty Images.
A 44-year-old man. An Italian road worker is reported to be the latest heat wave casualty in Europe.
An unnamed man collapsed on Tuesday while laying new road markings in the northern Italian city of Lodi in the Lombardy region. when the temperature jumped to 40 C.
He was rushed to the hospital, but on arrival he was declared dead.
The incident occurred when the weather was hot in southern Europe, when zookeepers in Spain were forced to feed the animals frozen fruit candies, and Greek officials warned that access to archaeological sites could be closed. be limited to the hottest hours of the day.
In Italy, extreme temperatures have affected several regions, with eight cities including Florence, Bologna, Rome and Rieti on high alert.
A red alert level means that the heat is so severe that it poses a threat not only to vulnerable categories such as very young children and the elderly, but to the entire population.
The number of cities with such a warning will increase to 10 on Thursday.
The heat wave was expected to give way to storms, rain and hail in the Alpine regions at the end of the week.
However, extreme temperatures will then return.
«This is new the movement of the African anticyclone will be more extensive than before, with even warmer temperatures across much of Italy,” said Antonio Sano, meteorologist at Il Meteo, a weather news website.
The map shows the intensity of the heat wave. Photo: Alistair Grant
Meanwhile, in Spain, at least one person died from heatstroke due to high temperatures, and people received official warnings to stay at home.
An employee of the popular Megapark entertainment complex on the island Mallorca fainted. and died at over 35°C on Sunday.
The man, a 47-year-old from Nigeria, was in charge of access control to the compound when he suffered heat stroke and a fatal heart attack.
According to a new study released this week, sweltering heatwaves in Europe last summer claimed the lives of 61,000 people, according to a new study released this week, showing countries' efforts to prepare for the heat turn out to be fatally insufficient.
A study by researchers from the European Institutes of Health recorded the heat. related deaths in 35 European countries from late May to early September 2022, during the continent's hottest summer on record.
The Spanish meteorological agency AEMET on Wednesday declared a red alert for regions of Andalusia and Murcia in southern Spain due to an expected temperature of 40 degrees and urged people to avoid going outside in the middle of the day unless absolutely necessary.
A sign on a street in Seville shows temperatures reaching 52°C. Credit: CRISTINA QUICLER/AFP via Getty Images
A recent national law banning outdoor work at temperatures above a certain level has been introduced in parts of the country, including Valencia on the southeast coast of Spain.
In Barcelona, zoo animals were given frozen fruit to keep them from overheating. Capybaras, the world's largest rodents, were given frozen watermelon, while chimpanzees and giraffes were given blocks of frozen fruit. A colony of meerkats feasted on the slurry of worms they had to dig out of the sand.
Temperatures in parts of the country are expected to reach 43 degrees this week in Greece. High temperatures will continue into next week. The Ministry of Culture has stated that access to archaeological sites may be restricted every day during times of peak temperatures.
But while much of Europe was scorching, France saw extreme weather of a different kind as hurricanes hit parts of the country. with hail the size of tennis balls, winds reaching 80 miles per hour and tens of thousands of lightning strikes.
Five departments — Haute-Saône, Doubs, Jura, Belfort Territory and Haute-Rhin — were placed under a red alert in for several hours on Tuesday, and the National Weather Service ordered them to prepare for «very strong events.»
A man sprays sunscreen while walking in the hot sun in Athens, Greece. Photo: SPYROS BAKALIS/AFP via Getty Images
In In Dijon, the roof of a supermarket with shoppers collapsed due to strong winds. There were no reports of casualties.
Residents posted pictures of hailstones, some the size of tennis balls, that shattered their car windshields, smashed their gardens, and caused several train delays.
Strong winds downed 30 trees in the city of Vichy, and hurricanes cut off power to thousands of residents across the region.
In less than 24 hours, from 10:00 Tuesday to 6:00 Wednesday, Keraunos, French tornado observatory and severe thunderstorms, said France was hit by more than 43,000 lightning strikes.
During the peak period, the most heavily affected area, Saone-et-Loire in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, experienced 54 lightning strikes per minute .
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