A temporary temperature of 102.38 degrees (39.1 Celsius) was recorded in the country, which declared a national emergency, while holding a bracket for 106 degrees (41 Celsius).
“Earth sends warning” to scientists’ warnings about the challenges climate change poses to everyday life, read another British headline.
Train heat can break tracks, blocking train traffic. And the London Ambulance Service is prepared for emergency situations such as fainting and heatstroke.
Experts have pointed to the role of climate change in humans as wildfires in Spain and France forced thousands of people from their homes.
As wildfires burn tens of thousands of hectares of land in Spain, The video shows a man walking out of a burning fire. He ran across the field from the yellow flame that burned the Nous excavation in Zamora A province where thousands of people have fled dozens of villages.
Train services between the capital Madrid and northwestern Galicia were suspended on Tuesday because of a fire near the tracks. Transportation officials said..
Wildfires that have destroyed at least 19,000 hectares of land in southwestern France are still blanketed by popular beaches and vacation spots after more firefighters were sent to the region on the west coast in the Gironde on Tuesday morning. Officials said nearly 37,000 people had fled their homes last week.
Cities and towns along the Atlantic coast got a bit of a reprieve early Tuesday, when a cool ocean air mass arrived from the west overnight. The French Meteorological Agency raised the “red” alert level in 15 areas, saying the atmosphere was becoming “very breathable”.
Still, “the heat wave is moving to the eastern part of the country,” the Meteo-France agency said, and 70 other regions of the country remained on the “orange” heat warning level. High temperatures are expected to range from 95 to 104 degrees (35 to 40 Celsius).
Record temperatures in Britain have sparked calls for action on climate change. “The probability of anywhere in the UK exceeding 40C in a year is rapidly increasing,” said Nikos Christidis, a scientist at the Met Office’s climate service – describing the temperature as “historic”.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told government representatives at a climate summit in Berlin on Monday that world leaders faced a choice on climate change: “collective action or collective suicide.” “It’s in our hands.”
Timsit reports from Paris.
