"Southern Europe is being cooked": Heat wave is rolling towards Spain - sometimes 45 degrees
Created: 07/08/2022, 09:12
By: Patrick Mayer
Oppressive heat in Spain: 53 degrees have already been measured in Seville in Andalusia.
© IMAGO/Angel Garcia
Not only Italy groans from the drought, but also Spain.
As drinking water runs out, Madrid braces for a monster heat.
Forest fires are also a concern.
Munich/Madrid – In Italy, the forests in the parks in Rome are burning because of the drought.
But Spain is also having a hard time with the heat and drought.
While June was already very hot, another heat wave is now rolling from the African continent towards the Mediterranean country - with extreme temperatures.
From Saturday (July 9th) it will be over 40 degrees for several days in a row, writes the
Südwestpresse
.
In Madrid it should be up to 45 degrees hot.
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That brings with it plenty of problems.
Fires have already destroyed tens of thousands of hectares of forest in the past few weeks and months.
It shouldn't have been this hot in June for two decades.
As in Italy, drinking water is also beginning to run out in Spain.
On average, the reservoirs were only 46 percent full of water.
As reported by the Spanish media, citing the government in Madrid, this is the lowest level since records began 17 years ago.
Southern Europe will probably be cooked in the coming weeks.
Meteorologist Paul Heger, wetter.de
“Southern Europe will probably be cooked in the coming weeks.
From Portugal to Spain, Italy to the Balkans, maximum values of around 40 degrees are threatening for a few days, maybe even weeks, with peaks between 45 and 50 degrees.
The latter is a record level for Europe!
Above all, the length of the possible heat, coupled with the already extreme drought, will cause major problems," explains
wetter.de
meteorologist Paul Heger.
According to the Spanish newspaper
La Vanguardia
, the situation should not recover until autumn, after the levels will continue to fall until September.
That's what the Ministry for Ecological Change in Madrid said.
There are first effects on tourism: while the drinking water is not yet rationed, according to the television broadcaster RTVE, holiday home owners and municipalities, some of them voluntarily, do not fill their swimming pools and swimming pools with water.
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The situation in the center, south and southwest of the country is particularly worrying, where temperatures of up to 53 degrees were measured in Seville in Andalusia.
Climate researchers would expect, reports WDR, that wine and olive production will decline significantly in the coming decades.
It is a not insignificant branch of the economy.
Heat and drought in Spain: It also stays hot on the Balearic island of Mallorca
But: In winter it should rain much less in Spain in the future.
Meanwhile, at the beginning of July, it remains hot on the Balearic island of Mallorca, which is popular with German holidaymakers - even at night.
While between 31 and 34 degrees are measured during the day, the temperatures at night should only cool down to 26 degrees.
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