New wildfires hit southwestern France amid record heat
2 years, 3 months ago

New wildfires hit southwestern France amid record heat

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy New wildfires raging in southwestern France have torn through over 1,000 hectares of land and forced the evacuation of residents amid record temperatures for September. Two Canadair aircraft specialized in firefighting — that already saw considerable work over the hot summer months in southern France — have been deployed to help, alongside helicopters and a Dash plane. French weather agency Meteo France announced Monday it had recorded record temperatures for the month of September — especially in the southwest due to a heatwave rising up from Morocco.

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Heat warnings issued as southern Europe hits 40 C
5 months, 1 week ago

Heat warnings issued as southern Europe hits 40 C

China Daily  

Tourists wait for a bus under a strong sun in Milan, Italy, on Tuesday as weather alerts were issued across the continent amid forest fires and melting pavements. LUCA BRUNO/AP Italy, Greece, and Spain are among countries experiencing scorching conditions as a surge of hot air from Africa sweeps across southern Europe, pushing temperatures above 40 Celsius, with predictions of …

CLIMATE GLIMPSE: Scorching Northern Hemisphere heat leads to deaths and wildfires
6 months, 1 week ago

CLIMATE GLIMPSE: Scorching Northern Hemisphere heat leads to deaths and wildfires

Associated Press  

The United States is bracing for chaotic weather this week, with the South set to experience another heat wave following a short respite from searing temperatures earlier this month. And it’s not just the U.S. Across the Northern Hemisphere, in Europe and Asia, extreme temperatures are causing deadly heatstroke and early wildfires ahead of the start of the astronomical summer …

Thousands evacuated as wildfires hit Spanish tourist island
1 year, 2 months ago

Thousands evacuated as wildfires hit Spanish tourist island

The Independent  

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Gale-force winds are fanning dozens of wildfires across Greece, leaving 2 dead, 2 injured
1 year, 4 months ago

Gale-force winds are fanning dozens of wildfires across Greece, leaving 2 dead, 2 injured

Associated Press  

ATHENS, Greece — Gale-force winds fanned the flames of wildfires across Greece, including more than four dozen new blazes that broke out Monday amid hot, dry and windy weather that has sucked moisture from vegetation. In Spain’s Canary Islands off the coast of West Africa, a nearly week-old fire blamed on arson continued out of control in what has been …

Explained | Wildfires and heatwaves that scorched through July
1 year, 4 months ago

Explained | Wildfires and heatwaves that scorched through July

The Hindu  

Multiple wildfires have been raging across the Northern Hemisphere in the past month, even as many countries across Europe, Asia and northern America have been experiencing record-high temperatures. At least, 400 firemen battled a fire in the Canary Islands that forced 4,000 people to flee and forced others to wear face masks. Temperatures in Italy touched 47°C on July 24 …

Residents lucky to be alive as wildfires rip through Tunisia, Algeria
1 year, 4 months ago

Residents lucky to be alive as wildfires rip through Tunisia, Algeria

Al Jazeera  

Tunisia and Algeria are the latest countries struggling with intense wildfires amid soaring temperatures. Destroyed homes Across much of Tunisia’s border with Algeria, people are slowly coming to terms with the firestorms that ripped through much of the thick forests with a ferocity that, in a region plagued by forest fires, they say was unprecedented. “It was like someone had …

Soaring Mediterranean temperatures bring death and destruction
1 year, 4 months ago

Soaring Mediterranean temperatures bring death and destruction

Al Jazeera  

Extreme weather throughout July has caused havoc in Southern Europe, North Africa and across the world. Extreme weather throughout July has caused havoc across the world, with temperatures breaking records in China, the United States and Southern Europe, sparking forest fires, water shortages and a rise in heat-related illnesses and hospitalisations. Scientists rank the Mediterranean region as a climate change …

European heatwave - latest updates as red alerts and record temperatures continue
1 year, 5 months ago

European heatwave - latest updates as red alerts and record temperatures continue

The Independent  

✕ Close Huge wildfire rages on La Palma forcing thousands to evacuate For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates …

Fire crews lose control of blaze near Athens as southern Europe heat wave keeps communities on alert
1 year, 5 months ago

Fire crews lose control of blaze near Athens as southern Europe heat wave keeps communities on alert

Associated Press  

LOUTRAKI, Greece — Evening winds fueled a major wildfire west of Greece’s capital Thursday, triggering a series of new evacuations outside Athens as authorities braced for more of the extreme weather that has brought searing heat to southern Europe. Authorities had declared the huge blaze contained overnight and Greece’s Fire Service intensified water drops with the help of extra firefighting …

US Southwest swelters under dangerous heat wave, with new records on track
1 year, 5 months ago

US Southwest swelters under dangerous heat wave, with new records on track

Deccan Chronicle  

A dangerous heat wave threatened a wide swath of the Southwest with potentially deadly temperatures in the triple digits on Saturday as some cooling centers extended their hours and emergency rooms prepared to treat more people with heat-related illnesses. Around 200 hydration stations distributing bottles of water and cooling centers where potentially thousands of people can rest in air-conditioned spaces …

Firefighters battle France’s 1st major forest blaze of 2023
1 year, 8 months ago

Firefighters battle France’s 1st major forest blaze of 2023

Associated Press  

PARIS — France’s government sounded the alarm Monday about the growing risk of forest fires because of climate change, as hundreds of firefighters in the country’s parched south wrestled with their biggest woodland-destroying blaze so far this year. On a visit Monday to the zone, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said: “The fire season is starting early because of climate …

UK’s record-breaking heatwave will be average summer by 2035, Met Office says
2 years, 3 months ago

UK’s record-breaking heatwave will be average summer by 2035, Met Office says

The Independent  

The record-breaking heatwave experienced across Europe this summer will be considered “average” by 2035, even if countries meet climate commitments agreed under the 2015 Paris Agreement, a new study warns. Sir David King, chair of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group, said: “The science is clear that extreme weather currently faced across the world is at least in large part a …

France in midst of 4th heat wave amid historic drought
2 years, 4 months ago

France in midst of 4th heat wave amid historic drought

Associated Press  

PARIS — France was in the midst of its fourth heat wave of the year Monday as the country faces what the government warned is its worst drought on record. National weather agency Meteo France said the heat wave began in the south and is expected to spread across the country and last until the weekend. Overall, the southern half …

Heatwave continues in France, triggering drought alert
2 years, 4 months ago

Heatwave continues in France, triggering drought alert

India TV News  

Highlights Heatwave continues to hit most parts of France this week Wednesday is the hottest day of the week with temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius Five departments in southwestern France have issued an "extreme heat" warning Heatwave continues to hit most parts of France this week, triggering a drought alert in the wake of the driest July in more than …

Wildfires Rage Across Southern Europe as Climate Alarm Sounded
2 years, 5 months ago

Wildfires Rage Across Southern Europe as Climate Alarm Sounded

News 18  

Emergency services battled wildfires across swathes of southern Europe amid mass evacuations on Wednesday, as warnings sounded in London after Britain’s hottest day that the fight against climate change needed to be stepped up. Portugal’s northern region’s Civil Protection commander Armando Silva said rising temperatures and strong winds would make it harder to fight the country’s largest wildfire, which has …

‘Very extreme danger of wildfires in UK’ as temperatures set to top 40C
2 years, 5 months ago

‘Very extreme danger of wildfires in UK’ as temperatures set to top 40C

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy There is “very extreme danger” of wildfire in parts of the UK as the country …

U.K. has warmest-ever night, braces for record-smashing heat
2 years, 5 months ago

U.K. has warmest-ever night, braces for record-smashing heat

The Hindu  

Millions of people in Britain woke from the country's warmest-ever night on July 19 and braced for a day when temperatures are forecast to hit 40° Celsius, as a heat wave scorching Europe wallops a country more used to mild weather and rain. The U.K.'s Met Office weather agency said provisional figures showed the temperature remained above 25° C overnight …

Wildfires in France, Spain, Portugal - Europe braces for worst heatwave | In photos
2 years, 5 months ago

Wildfires in France, Spain, Portugal - Europe braces for worst heatwave | In photos

Hindustan Times  

Wildfires in France, Spain, Portugal - Europe braces for worst heatwave | In photos Almost all of Europe is on alert over an impending heatwave as temperatures touch record levels and forestlands turn into a pool of fire. Hectares of forest land have been burning since last week, putting thousands of lives at risk.. 1 / 8 View Photos in …

Europe broils in heat wave that fuels fires in France, Spain
2 years, 5 months ago

Europe broils in heat wave that fuels fires in France, Spain

Associated Press  

LA TESTE-DE-BUCH, France — A heat wave broiling Europe spilled northward Monday to Britain and fueled ferocious wildfires in Spain and France, which evacuated thousands of people and scrambled water-bombing planes and firefighters to battle flames in tinder-dry forests. Two people were killed in the blazes in Spain that its prime minister linked to global warming, saying, “Climate change kills.” …

Wildfires rage in Spain; France and UK brace for record temperatures as Europe battles intense heatwave
2 years, 5 months ago

Wildfires rage in Spain; France and UK brace for record temperatures as Europe battles intense heatwave

India Today  

Temperatures in some parts of southern Europe began to ease over the weekend but thousands of firefighters across the region still battled to contain hundreds of wildfires and authorities said the risk of further blazes remained extremely high. Spain faced the eighth and last day of a more than week-long heatwave on Monday, which caused more than 510 heat-related deaths, …

Europe’s heatwave: UK sees third-hottest day on record, wildfires rage in France and Spain
2 years, 5 months ago

Europe’s heatwave: UK sees third-hottest day on record, wildfires rage in France and Spain

CNN  

Paris CNN — Extreme heat has engulfed parts of western Europe, with wildfires raging in France and Spain, a worsening drought in Portugal, and the third hottest day on record in the UK on Monday. An elderly couple also died Monday after their vehicle overturned while fleeing wildfires in northern Portugal, the country’s state broadcaster RTP reported. In the UK …

‘Heat apocalypse’: Europe in the grip of record-breaking heatwave
2 years, 5 months ago

‘Heat apocalypse’: Europe in the grip of record-breaking heatwave

Al Jazeera  

A heatwave broiling Europe has moved northward to the United Kingdom and fuelled ferocious wildfires in Spain and France, where more than a dozen local temperature records were broken. Two people were killed in the blazes in Spain that its prime minister linked to global warming, saying on Monday, “climate change kills”. Records broken in France Regional temperature records in …

Forest fire forces thousands more people out of homes in France
2 years, 5 months ago

Forest fire forces thousands more people out of homes in France

Al Jazeera  

The blaze is one of two huge wildfires raging since early last week in the Girdonde region south of Bordeaux. Firefighters have been unable to control the blaze near the Dune de Pilat, Europe’s highest sand dune and a summer tourism hot spot, where rapidly changing winds have increased the risk of fire spreading to residential areas that found themselves …

Fires scorch Spain and France, where flames reach the beach
2 years, 5 months ago

Fires scorch Spain and France, where flames reach the beach

Associated Press  

PARIS — Firefighters battled wildfires raging out of control in Spain and France, including one whose flames reached two popular Atlantic beaches on Sunday, as Europe wilted under an unusually extreme heat wave. Spain’s National Defense Department said that “the majority” of its fire-fighting aircraft have been deployed to reach the blazes, many of which are in rugged, hilly terrain …

Forest fires rage in scorching southwest Europe
2 years, 5 months ago

Forest fires rage in scorching southwest Europe

The Hindu  

Firefighters struggled to contain wildfires sweeping across southwest Europe on Sunday as a heatwave showed no sign of abating, with Britain poised to set new temperature records this coming week. Blazes raging in France, Greece, Portugal and Spain have destroyed thousands of hectares of land, forced scores from their homes and killed several emergency personnel since last week. Authorities in …

Fires scorch France, Spain; temperature-related deaths soar
2 years, 5 months ago

Fires scorch France, Spain; temperature-related deaths soar

The Independent  

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Photos: Wildfires rage as parts of Europe battle record heatwave
2 years, 5 months ago

Photos: Wildfires rage as parts of Europe battle record heatwave

Al Jazeera  

A summer heatwave that has triggered devastating forest fires across Southwest Europe shows no signs of abating, as parts of the continent gear for new temperature records early next week. Firefighters in France, Portugal, Spain and Greece are battling forest blazes that have ravaged thousands of hectares of land and killed several people since the start of the week. Firefighters …

Heatwave scorches Europe as hundreds evacuated from wildfires
2 years, 5 months ago

Heatwave scorches Europe as hundreds evacuated from wildfires

Al Jazeera  

Officials issue health warnings as Europe braces for a new heatwave in the coming days. Hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes as wildfires blistered land in France, Spain and Portugal, with officials issuing health warnings for a new heatwave in the coming days. Portuguese health minister Marta Temido said on Thursday the health system faced a “particularly …

Watch | Inside the European Heatwave
2 years, 5 months ago

Watch | Inside the European Heatwave

The Hindu  

Europe is experiencing its worst heatwave. In many parts of Spain, France, and Germany, this has even led to massive wildfires. In the fourth week of June, temperatures in some parts of France, broke more than 200 monthly records. Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Spain also recorded all-time highs. This is the earliest heatwave ever recorded in France since 1947.

Europe wilts under early summer heat wave
2 years, 6 months ago

Europe wilts under early summer heat wave

The Hindu  

June 19, 2022 05:03 am | Updated 05:03 am IST - BERLIN: A blanket of hot air stretching from the Mediterranean to the North Sea is bringing much of Western Europe its first heat wave of the summer, with temperatures on Friday exceeding 30 degrees Celsius from London to Paris. France has introduced numerous measures to cope with extreme summer …

Europe wilts under early heat wave from Med to North Sea
2 years, 6 months ago

Europe wilts under early heat wave from Med to North Sea

Associated Press  

BERLIN — A blanket of hot air stretching from the Mediterranean to the North Sea is bringing much of Western Europe its first heat wave of the summer, with temperatures Friday exceeding 30 degrees Celsius from London to Paris. Meteorologists say the unusually early heat wave is a sign of what’s to come as global warming continues, moving up in …

Explained: From drought to forest fires, how severe heatwaves have affected Europe
2 years, 6 months ago

Explained: From drought to forest fires, how severe heatwaves have affected Europe

Firstpost  

The continent has endured five of its hottest summers since 1500, with temperatures reaching up to 47 degrees Celsius in some regions, leaving many dead. Between late July and early August 2021, Greece endures what Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis calls the country’s worst heatwave in over 30 years, with temperatures hitting 45 degrees Celsius in some regions. 2019: Northern Europe …

Heatwave grips France, UK, Spain as temperatures rise
2 years, 6 months ago

Heatwave grips France, UK, Spain as temperatures rise

Al Jazeera  

Record-setting hot weather underscores warning from scientists that heatwaves will be more common due to climate change. A punishing heatwave has broken a string of records in France and the UK, as parts of Italy suffer drought and Spain battles to contain forest fires that have forced hundreds from their homes. Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez praised firefighters on Friday …

Thousands Of People Flee A Wildfire Near The French Riviera During Vacation Season
3 years, 4 months ago

Thousands Of People Flee A Wildfire Near The French Riviera During Vacation Season

NPR  

Thousands Of People Flee A Wildfire Near The French Riviera During Vacation Season Enlarge this image toggle caption SDIS 83 via AP SDIS 83 via AP LA GARDE-FREINET, France — Thousands of people fled homes, campgrounds and hotels near the French Riviera on Tuesday as firefighters battled a blaze that raced through nearby forests, sending smoke pouring down wooded slopes …

Devastating wildfires in southern Europe could reignite, experts warn
3 years, 4 months ago

Devastating wildfires in southern Europe could reignite, experts warn

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Authorities in South Europe have warned that the current heatwave could reignite devastating wildfires which …

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