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Bloomberg
6 days ago
- Health
- Bloomberg
Extreme Heat Is Killing European Workers Despite Government Efforts
Montse Aguilar was a healthy 51-year-old woman when she started her shift cleaning streets in Barcelona at around 2:30pm on June 28. The Spanish city was under alert for high temperatures amid a brutal heat wave that brought record temperatures for that time of the year across the country. She was responsible for sweeping one of the hottest, dirtiest and more touristic areas — the Raval district. At the end of the shift, at around 9:30pm, she walked back home and asked her elderly mother to prepare dinner because she wasn't feeling well. She also messaged a friend and told him she felt cramps in her arms, chest and neck, her brother-in-law Manuel Ceacero told Bloomberg Green.
Al Arabiya
02-07-2025
- Climate
- Al Arabiya
Two dead in Spain as heatwave scorches Europe
Firefighters in Spain have said they found two bodies after a blaze in the northeast of the country, which is in the midst of a brutal heatwave. The heatwave across Europe this week broke high temperature records, caused the closure of schools and increased the risk of fire. Authorities in Spain's Catalonia region on Tuesday confined about 14,000 people to their homes due to two wildfires that broke out almost simultaneously in the province of Lerida. In one of the blazes, near the city of Cosco, 'two people were found lifeless by firefighters', the fire and emergency service said in a statement. The exact cause of the fire was unclear, but the service said the recent heat, dry conditions and strong winds caused by storms had increased the intensity of the flames. Catalonia regional president Salvador Illa said he was 'dismayed after learning of the death of two people as a result of the fire', in a post on X. Hours earlier, police in the region had reported the death of a two-year-old boy after he was left in a parked car in the sun for several hours. Spain is in the midst of an intense heatwave, with temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in many places and several heat records set for the month of June. One person died in the southern city of Cordoba and another in Barcelona, both while doing road work on Saturday and likely victims of heatstroke. According to scientists, extreme weather events, such as heatwaves and storms, are becoming more intense due to man-made climate change. Tens of thousands of people have died in Europe during past heatwaves, prompting authorities to issue warnings for old and young, the sick, and others vulnerable to what experts call a 'silent killer.'
Free Malaysia Today
02-07-2025
- Climate
- Free Malaysia Today
Temperature records broken in Spain and Portugal
Eight Portuguese inland regions remain on the second-highest alert today. (AP pic) LISBON : Portugal recorded its highest-ever single-day temperature in June – 46.6°C – while last month was the hottest in Spain, the countries' weather services said today. The IPMA agency said the record temperature was registered on Sunday at Mora, about 100km east of the capital, Lisbon. That beat the previous June high of 44.9°C in the southwestern town of Alcacer do Sal in 2017. Some 37% of IPMA monitoring stations recorded temperatures higher than 40°C on Sunday, it added. A number of regions, including around the capital, were put on red alert on Sunday and yesterday because of the heatwave, that has spread across much of Europe. Eight Portuguese inland regions remained on the second-highest alert with the highest risk of forest fires, especially woodland areas in the centre and north of the country. In Spain, the Aemet weather service said the country had its hottest June on record, with an average temperature of 23.6°C. The 'extremely hot' June 'pulverised records', surpassing the normal average for July and August as well as the previous June record of 22.8°C set in 2017. Temperatures in southern Spain soared to 46°C on Saturday – another June high – while scientists said the Mediterranean Sea was warmer than usual at 26.01°C on Sunday, another June record. Human-induced climate change is being blamed for stoking hotter and more intense heatwaves, particularly in cities, where tightly packed buildings amplifies temperatures. Michael Byrne, a reader in climate science at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, said heat domes – when warm air is trapped in the atmosphere – were nothing new. 'What is new are the temperatures heat domes deliver. Europe is more than 2°C warmer than in pre-industrial times, so when a heat dome occurs it drives a hotter heatwave,' he added. 'Climate change is loading the dice such that when a heat dome does occur, it brings hotter and more dangerous temperatures,' he added.
CBC
01-07-2025
- Climate
- CBC
Barcelona records hottest June in more than 100 years as blistering heat wave grips Europe
Barcelona recorded its hottest month of June since records started more than a century ago, Spain's national weather service said on Tuesday as Europe remained in the grip of the first major heat wave this summer. The Can Fabra Observatory, located on a hill overlooking Barcelona, reported an average temperature of 26 C, breaking records since 1914. The previous hottest average for June was 25.6 C in 2003. The same weather station said that a single-day high of 37.9 C for June was recorded on Monday. Barcelona is usually spared the worst heat in Spain, thanks to its location between hills and the Mediterranean in Spain's northeastern corner. But most of the country has been gripped by the first heat wave of the year. Health warnings were in effect Tuesday in several European Union countries even as conditions began to improve in some parts of the region. Punishing temperatures were forecast to reach 40 C in Paris and to stay unusually high in Belgium and the Netherlands. In contrast, temperatures were falling in Portugal, where no red heat warnings were issued. Spain saw a new high mark for June established on Saturday when 46 C was recorded in the southern province of Huelva, while Sunday's national average of 28 C set a record for a high temperature for June 29 since records were started in 1950. "We are seeing these temperatures because we are experiencing a very intense heat wave that has come early in the summer and that is clearly linked to global warming," Ramón Pascual, the regional delegate for Spain's weather service in Barcelona, told The Associated Press on Tuesday. WATCH | Tourists look for shade as parts of Europe grapple with heat wave: Europe sweltering under early summer heat dome 23 hours ago Duration 4:01 Major cities and tourist destinations across Europe are recording unusually high temperatures as June draws to a close. In southern Europe, the hot, dry weather created conditions for wildfires. In France, the national weather agency Météo-France placed several departments under the highest red alert, with the Paris region particularly hard hit. The heat wave, defined as consecutive days of very high temperature, is expected to intensify Tuesday with more than 1,300 schools set to be partially or fully closed, the Education Ministry said. Visitors to the Eiffel Tower without tickets were told to postpone their visits as the summit of the city's landmark was closed until Thursday. Météo-France also warned of the heightened risk of wildfires due to the drought-stricken soil, compounded by a lack of rain in June and the recent surge in temperature. Climate experts warn that future summers are likely to be hotter than any recorded to date. By 2100, France could be up to 4 C warmer, with temperatures exceeding 40 C expected every year and extreme heat spikes potentially reaching 50 C. According to Météo-France, the country may face a tenfold increase in the number of heat wave days by 2100. Farther south, 17 of Italy's 27 major cities were experiencing a heat wave, according to the Health Ministry. There were torrential rains in Italy's north on Monday and parts of Bardonecchia near Turin were covered in sludge after the Frejus River burst its banks. Near Bologna, one of the cities under a heat alert Tuesday, the 46-year-old owner of a construction company collapsed and died while repaving a school parking lot, state-run RAI reported. An autopsy was being conducted to determine the cause, but heat was suspected. The CGIL labour union said the death of the man, whom it identified as Ait El Hajjam Brahim, owner of Veneto Pavimenti SAS, showed the need for improved measures to protect construction workers from heat exposure. An annual event in Amsterdam to commemorate the end of slavery in former Dutch colonies was moved forward to avoid the hottest part of the day and in the northern city of Groningen, organizers of an outdoor concert featuring veteran rocker Neil Young also took measures, including adding extra drinking water taps and providing free sunblock. The national weather institute issued an alert for extreme temperatures and smog in parts of the country and warned the eastern Netherlands that severe thunderstorms could break out on Wednesday as the hot weather ends. In Portugal, Lisbon was forecast to reach 33 C, typical for this time of the year, though some inland areas could still see peaks of 43 C, according to the national weather agency. June temperature records were broken in two locations in Portugal on June 29.
Reuters
01-07-2025
- Climate
- Reuters
Barcelona investigates street sweeper's death as Spain swelters in heatwave
BARCELONA, July 1 (Reuters) - Spanish authorities are investigating whether a street sweeper's death over the weekend in Barcelona was caused by an intense heatwave gripping the country and region, the city council said late on Monday. The woman, who had been cleaning the old town in Barcelona on Saturday afternoon, died later that day at home, her sister told the Antena 3 TV station. Her sister said the 51-year-old woman, identified just as Montserrat, had told a colleague she thought she "was dying." Temperatures reached 30.4 degrees Celsius (86.7 degrees Fahrenheit) in Barcelona on Saturday, weather agency AEMET said. Extreme heat can kill by causing heat stroke, or aggravating cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, with older people being among the most vulnerable. The City council said on Monday it would investigate the woman's death. Last year, there were 2,032 deaths attributable to heat in Spain, according to the Health Ministry. That number was still lower than heat-linked fatalities in 2023 and 2022. The first heatwave of the summer hit Spain during the weekend and is set to last until Tuesday.
