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The firefighters fought the forest fires in turkey and in France on Monday while a wave of early heat struck the region.
In Turkey, forest fires raged for a second day in the western province of Izmir, stretched by strong winds, said forest minister Ibrahim Yumakli, forcing the evacuation of four villages and two cities.
The coastal regions of Turkey have been ravaged in recent years by forest fires when summers have become warmer and drier, which, according to scientists, is the result of climate change induced by humans.
In France, where temperatures are expected to peak on Tuesday and Wednesday, forest fires broke out Sunday in the Southwest department of Aude, where temperatures exceeded 40 C, burning 400 hectares and forcing the evacuation of a campsite and an abbey, the authorities announced.
The fires were under control but have not yet been extinguished, officials announced on Monday.
The Meteo France meteorological service put a record of 84 of the country’s 101 departments on an orange heat wave alert on Monday in the middle of the week. About 200 schools will be at least partially closed over the next three days due to heat, said the Ministry of Education.
Heat wave felt across Europe
The authorities have sent thermal alerts across Europe.
Spain is on the right track for its hottest, ever recorded June, said the National Meetorological Service AEMET, providing for the peak of the heat wave on Monday.
“In the coming days, at least until Thursday, intense warmth will continue in a large part of Spain,” said Ruben del Campo, spokesperson for the weather agency.
In Seville, in southern Spain, where world leaders met for a United Nations conference, temperatures should strike 42 C..
“It’s horrible,” said Bernabe Rofo municipal worker cleaning a fountain. “We must constantly look for shadow.”
Look | Tourists are looking for the shadow while some parts of Europe are struggling with a heat wave:
Large cities and tourist destinations across Europe record unusually high temperatures while June is coming to an end. In the south of Europe, hot and dry conditions have created conditions for forest fires.
Tourists were also looking for ways to cope with heat.
“I suppose that water, water and shade, water and shadow,” said 51 -year -old visitor Nicole Shift, who got up early to enjoy the historic sites of Seville before the heat is too intense.
In Italy, the Ministry of Health has issued red waves alerts for 16 cities. The weather website Ilmeteo.it said Monday temperatures would go up to 41 ° C in Florence, 38 C in Bologna and 37 C in Péurgie.
The Lombardy region, which is part of the northern industrial heart of Italy, plans to prohibit outdoor work in the hottest part of the day, watching for unions, said its president.
In the Netherlands, generally fresher than many other parts of Europe, the Royal Meteorological Institute warned that temperatures could reach 35 to 40 ° C in certain parts of the country in the coming days, with high humidity.
Amsterdam has extended the opening hours in the home shelters.
Some 480,000 killed worldwide in extreme heat
Also in Germany, thermal warnings were in place in large parts of the western and southwest regions on Monday, where temperatures reached up to 34 C. The authorities have called on consumers to limit their use of water. Temperatures should peak in the middle of the week.
The heat wave lowered the water levels on the Rhine river, hampering shipping and increasing freight costs for goods owners, said raw material traders. German and French electricity prices for Tuesday increased while the heat wave caused increased cooling demand.
Heat can affect health in various ways, and experts are most concerned about the elderly and babies, as well as outdoor workers and people in economic difficulty.
Globally, extreme heat kills up to 480,000 people a year, exceeding the combined assessment of floods, earthquakes and hurricanes, and it presents growing risks for infrastructure, economics and health care systems, said Swiss REA earlier this month.
Global surface temperatures last month were on average 1.4 C higher than in the pre-industrial period, when humans began to burn fossil fuels on an industrial scale, said Copernicus climate change service earlier this month.
Scientists say that the main cause of climate change is greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels. Last year was the hottest on the planet.
