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The heat wave continues to grip large parts of Europe, with authorities in many countries issuing health warnings against the background of cheating temperatures.
Southern Spain is the worst affected region, with temperatures in the mid-1940s, Costy, registered in Seville and neighboring areas.
A new heat record for 46C was set on Saturday in the city of El Granado, according to the Spanish National Meteorological Service, which also said that this month is about to be the hottest June on the recording.
Red heat warnings are in force in parts of Portugal, Italy and Croatia, with numerous warnings for amber, covering areas of Spain, France, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Serbia, Slovenia and Switzerland.
In Barcelona, a woman died after finishing a shift as a road wiper on Saturday, when the temperatures were very high. Local authorities are investigating her death.
In Italy, emergency units across the country report a heating attack, mainly affecting “elderly people, cancer patients or stray people,” said Mario Guarino, Vice President of the Italian Society of Emergency Medicine before the AFP news agency.
Hospitals such as OsPedale dei Colli in Naples have created special heat stroke roads to accelerate access to vital treatments such as immersion of cold water.
The city of Bologna has created seven air -conditioning shelters with air conditioning and drinking water, while Rome offers free access to city pools for those over 70 years.
A pharmacist in the capital of Portugal Lisbon told Reuters news agency that although he told people not to go out “during the first hours of the day,” we have already had some cases of heat strikes and burns. “
The high heat also affected the countries in the Western Balkans, where temperatures reached over 40 ° C.
Serbia registered its highest temperature as it began to record them in the 19th century. In Slovenia, the hottest June temperature is registered on Saturday.
Northern Macedonia also inflates as temperatures reached 42C on Friday.
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Some areas will continue to become more hot by the middle of the week, with temperatures rising through France, Germany, Italy and the UK over the next few days.
Yellow and amber signals were created for parts of England this weekend, and temperatures in London can reach 35C on Monday.
The heat is built under a large area of high pressure, with dry air, lowered and warming.
As this process continues for several days, temperatures have risen. The high pressure area will move east in the next few days – with it north and east.
Although it is difficult to connect the individual extreme meteorological events to climate change, heat waves are becoming increasingly common and more intensity due to climate change.
Scientists at World Weather Attribution, who analyze the impact of climate change on extreme meteorological events, say that June heat waves with three consecutive days above 28C are about 10 times more prone to appear now than predumerical times.
Additional reporting from BBC Weather, Guy Delauney and Guy Hedgecoe