Posted on 08/04/2018 11:19:42 AM PDT by Simon Green
EUROPE is braced for its hottest day since records began today with temperatures likely to soar above the 118F high set 40 years ago.
Thousands of Brit holidaymakers and expats in Spain and Portugal will pile on to packed beaches as the heatwave peaks.
The blistering sunshine is widely tipped to pass the 118.4F (48C) recorded in Athens, Greece, on July 10, 1977.
And the deadly scorcher — driven by an African plume carrying Saharan dust with it — will spark a mini-revival of Britain’s heatwave with temperatures of 88F (31C) expected all weekend.
But it could also lead to a humanitarian crisis across Europe with the number of heat-related deaths likely to rise among the old and sick.
The Red Cross has already sent volunteers to the areas most at risk in southern Spain and Portugal.
And their emergency services have issued a red alert, drafting in extra medical staff and firefighters to cope with the threat.
The highest temperature recorded to date in Spain is 117F (47.3C).
so the Hurricanes turned in to African Plume and went North ?
It’s my fault it’s hot in EU because I drove to work yesterday. :)
Record set in 1977, about the time that Scientists were warning of Globull Cooling. Interesting.
I remember about 15 years ago when a bunch of French elderly died in homes during a heatwave. I hope they have better a/c now.
The same thing has been happening in Japan and much of the Pacific Rim.
Strangely, this is the middle of Thermidor in the revolutionary French calendar. I wonder why they named it that?
Always remember, children, hot weather is climate but cold weather is just weather.
That’s why the EU is getting all those Migrants(LOL) they’re following the Heat
We have tree in our yard maybe I can sell them some carbon credits
Show me where the thermometer is located.
88 degrees is a deadly scorcher?
I am in Spain right now and it’s been in the mid 80s all week, gorgeous weather. It’s like saying America is in a brutal heat wave because it’s sweltering hot in Texas.
Mowing our lawns and driving our gas guzzlers to and from work.
My wife is in Paris, she tells me it’s very hot and most of residences don’t have AC.
wow same temperatures as 40 years ago
(and NOW when the place measured is even more a heat sink of concrete and asphalt)
Is it any wonder that people figured out the global warming thing was a hoax years ago, and the leftards had to rename their scan ‘climate change’, which is too complex/confusing for most to follow more than one liner media ‘science’ explanations as the ‘proof’ ?
Don’t leave your parents and grandparents home alone in August, Euroweenies.
London is about as far north as Calgary in Canada.
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