In Britain, train operators asked customers not to travel unless absolutely necessary, saying the heat was likely to warp rails and disrupt power supplies, leading to severe delays. More than 1,500 firefighters and water-bombing planes are trying to douse the flames in the region’s tinder-dry pine forests. Officials in southern France’s Gironde region announced plans to evacuate an additional 3,500 people from towns threatened by the raging flames. Drought and heat waves tied to climate change have also made wildfires harder to fight. reaching 40 C (104 F) is now 10 times higher than in the pre-industrial era.
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in rivers, lakes and reservoirs while trying to cool off.Ĭlimate experts warn that global warming has increased the frequency of extreme weather events, with studies showing that the likelihood of temperatures in the U.K. Wales provisionally recorded its highest-ever temperature, the Met Office said: 37.1 C (95.5 F) at Hawarden in northeastern Wales.Īt least four people were reported to have drowned across the U.K. The country isn’t at all prepared to handle such heat - most homes, schools and small businesses in Britain don’t have air conditioning. The temperature Monday reached 38.1 C (100.6 F) at Downham in eastern England, just shy of the highest-ever recorded in Britain - 38.7 C (101.7 F), a record set in 2019. The extreme heat warning stretches from London in the south to Manchester and Leeds in the north.
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The red heat alert covers a big chunk of England and is to last through Tuesday, when temperatures may reach 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) for the first time, posing a risk of serious illness and even death among healthy people, according to the Met Office, the U.K.’s meteorological agency. LONDON (AP) - Millions of people in Britain stayed home or sought shade Monday during the country’s first-ever extreme heat warning, as the hot, dry weather that has scorched mainland Europe for the past week moved north, buckling rail lines and forcing two airports to close their runways.