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Where are the fires in Italy today as temperatures rise to 47.6C on Sicily?
1 year, 4 months ago

Where are the fires in Italy today as temperatures rise to 47.6C on Sicily?

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. Yesterday, temperatures rose to 47.6C in some parts of eastern Sicily, close to the record European high of 48.8C …

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Deadly wildfires in Greece, Italy, Algeria and elsewhere destroy homes, threaten nature reserves
1 year, 4 months ago

Deadly wildfires in Greece, Italy, Algeria and elsewhere destroy homes, threaten nature reserves

LA Times  

A firefighting airplane flies above clouds of smoke from a wildfire near houses outside Lisbon, Portugal. Deadly fires raging in Greece and other European countries advanced on Wednesday, destroying homes and threatening nature reserves during a third successive wave of extreme temperatures. Summer wildfires have struck countries across the region, prompting the European Union to expand its support, including sending …

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Wildfire closes Sicily airport; storms kill two in northern Italy
1 year, 4 months ago

Wildfire closes Sicily airport; storms kill two in northern Italy

Al Jazeera  

Car and train traffic also disrupted due to fire near Palermo’s airport as trees fall and buildings damaged in Milan. A wildfire has closed the Palermo airport in Sicily, and storms have killed at least two people in northern Italy as extreme weather batters the length of the country. The island’s main airport of Catania, Italy’s fifth biggest, was closed …

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Sicily records Europe’s ‘highest ever’ temperature as fires rage
3 years, 4 months ago

Sicily records Europe’s ‘highest ever’ temperature as fires rage

Al Jazeera  

Some scientists believe temperatures of 48.8C in Italy, as an anticyclone nicknamed ‘Lucifer’ sweeps in, are unprecedented. Fires stoked by hot winds tore through southern Italy on Thursday, a day after a monitoring station in Floridia, Sicily reported temperatures of 48.8C – levels some scientists believe could be the highest in European history. Wednesday’s record temperature, which still needs to …

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