France roasts in record heatwave, two die in Spain

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France roasts in record heatwave, two die in Spain

By Inti Landauro and Emma Pinedo

 

People cool off in the sea in Marseille as a heatwave hits much of the country, France, June 28, 2019. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier

 

PARIS/MADRID (Reuters) - France registered its highest temperature since records began on Friday as the death toll rose from a heatwave suffocating much of Europe.

 

The mercury hit 45.9 degrees Celsius (114.6 Fahrenheit) in Gallargues-le-Montueux, in the southern Provence region, weather forecaster Meteo France said, nearly two degrees above the previous high of 44.1 Celsius recorded in August 2003.

 

Twelve towns in southern France saw new all-time highs on Friday and three experienced temperatures above 45 degrees, it said.

 

The World Meteorological Organization said 2019 was on track to be among the world's hottest years, and that 2015-2019 would then be the hottest five-year period on record.

 

It said the European heatwave was "absolutely consistent" with extremes linked to the impact of greenhouse gas emissions.

 

Four administrative departments in France were placed on red alert, signalling temperatures of "dangerous intensity" that are more typical of Saudi Arabia.

 

The unusually high temperatures are forecast to last until early next week.

 

In Spain, where temperature peaked above 43 degrees for the second day running, wildfires raged across 60 sq km (23 sq miles) of land in the northeastern Tarragona province. Officials said firefighters battling the blazes on 20 fronts managed to avoid them from spreading.

 

In the central region, a fire broke out on the outskirts of Toledo, forcing the evacuation of two public buildings, a regional official told Reuters.

 

To the north in Valladolid, a man of 93 collapsed and died due to the heat, police said. And in a small town outside Cordoba, a 17-year-old died of heat-related effects after jumping into a swimming pool to cool off.

 

Since 1975, Spain has registered nine heatwaves in June, including five in the last decade, according to the Spanish meteorological office.

 

In France, one boy was seriously hurt when he was thrown back by a jet of water from a fire hydrant. Some 4,000 schools were either closed or running a limited service to help working parents unable to stay at home.

 

State-run rail operator SNCF offered free cancellations or exchanges on long-distance trips, social workers helped homeless people cope with the heat, and French families with elderly relatives who were ill or living alone were advised to call or visit them twice a day and take them to cool places.

 

The greater Paris region, Ile de France, has banned more than half of cars from its roads as the stifling heat worsened air pollution, the toughest restriction provided for -- although all cars were to be allowed to leave the city as school holidays began.

 

The cities of Lyon, Strasbourg and Marseille have also restricted traffic.

 

(Reporting by Inti Landauro, Richard Lough and Geert De Clercq in Paris; Emma Pinedo and Paul Day in Madrid; Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva; Writing by Kevin Liffey; Editing by Catherine Evans and John Stonestreet)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-06-29

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[Tug]

Well it’s going to get worse much worse 

[smedly]

quiz

 

3 places of interest in that photo that caught my attention (as a male) on my 65" UHD screen lol

[KiChakayan]

Got it now, tks

 

 

[Cryingdick]

Let's see if they stop using cars and taking planes to combat it.

[zydeco]

French roast, then. BTW, I've lived in really hot weather most of my life. It's not the daily high that kills you; it's the inability to cool off at night. Don't know what the overnight lows are in these places. But if they're in the mid to lower 70s (23 to 24 C), people should be okay.

 

Edited June 29, 2019 by zydeco

[zydeco]

2 hours ago, smedly said:

quiz

 

3 places of interest in that photo that caught my attention (as a male) on my 65" UHD screen lol

The woman standing in front of the blue and white umbrella? She's three in one all by herself.

[Cryingdick]

2 minutes ago, zydeco said:

The woman standing in front of the blue and white umbrella? She's three in one all by herself.

 

Please check your toxic masculinity. Thank you.

[nauseus]

6 minutes ago, zydeco said:

French roast, then. BTW, I've lived in really hot weather most of my life. It's not the daily high that kills you; it's the inability to cool off at night. Don't know what the overnight lows are in these places. But if they're in the mid to lower 70s (23 to 24 C), people should be okay.

 

Forecast looks like it's cooling already. Below 40 today and 22 at night then cooling more ....

[sammieuk1]

3 hours ago, smedly said:

quiz

 

3 places of interest in that photo that caught my attention (as a male) on my 65" UHD screen lol

Sure a zoom function would help to get things moving here to???? 

[Tug]

Ahhh don’t worry Donald says it’s all a Chinese hoax

[Krataiboy]

4 hours ago, Tug said:

Well it’s going to get worse much worse 

Yep, were all going to be burned to a crisp any time soon. . . 

 

. . . or the heatwave could be the fall-out from the El Nino, which began in February (later than forecast) and can have unpredictable results on our weather. Like abnormal temperatures.

[bristolboy]

9 minutes ago, Krataiboy said:

Yep, were all going to be burned to a crisp any time soon. . . 

 

. . . or the heatwave could be the fall-out from the El Nino, which began in February (later than forecast) and can have unpredictable results on our weather. Like abnormal temperatures.

If El Nino were an unprecedented phenomenon, you'd have a much better point.

[Krataiboy]

55 minutes ago, bristolboy said:

If El Nino were an unprecedented phenomenon, you'd have a much better point.

True, but the current El Nino is one of the strongest on record.

Edited June 29, 2019 by Krataiboy

[bristolboy]

4 minutes ago, Krataiboy said:

True, but the current El Nino is one of the strongest on record.

False. It's actually a weak El Nino.

[Vacuum]

5 hours ago, smedly said:

quiz

 

3 places of interest in that photo that caught my attention (as a male) on my 65" UHD screen lol

The beach still has some sand on it?

[Krataiboy]

7 minutes ago, bristolboy said:

False. It's actually a weak El Nino.

"Current data show that the El Niño event taking place now is one of the strongest on record. It is second only to the 1982 – 83 event".

11 minutes ago, bristolboy said:

False. It's actually a weak El Nino.

My apologies. On checking, it turns out the article I quoted was dated @2019 for copyright purposes, but actually referred to the El Nino of 1997-98. 

[observer90210]

An emergency heat wave decree must be installed...all the females would need to be nude to cope with the heat...

[thaibeachlovers]

6 hours ago, Cryingdick said:

Let's see if they stop using cars and taking planes to combat it.

Lucky they use nuclear for electricity, so the usual people can't say it's burning coal in France that caused it.

[Scott]

Troll post removed.

 

[balo]

It will get colder next year, don't worry.

[bristolboy]

1 minute ago, balo said:

It will get colder next year, don't worry.

An authoritative opinion from an anonymous climatologist.

[thaibeachlovers]

18 minutes ago, balo said:

It will get colder next year, don't worry.

It's freezing where I am. If wishes came true I'd be wishing for some of that heat to be transferred here.

[MRToMRT]

18 hours ago, Krataiboy said:

True, but the current El Nino is one of the strongest on record.

Did you just make that up? Why?

 

 

[thaibeachlovers]

4 minutes ago, MRToMRT said:

Did you just make that up? Why?

 

 

That was already answered a few post before yours.

[bristolboy]

5 minutes ago, MRToMRT said:

Did you just make that up? Why?

 

 

Krataiboy already acknowledged and explained his error.

[neeray]

On ‎6‎/‎28‎/‎2019 at 7:37 PM, smedly said:

quiz

 

3 places of interest in that photo that caught my attention (as a male) on my 65" UHD screen lol

I think one is the lower right hand corner.

[Krataiboy]

It would be useful to confirm the location of the sensor at Gallargues-le-Montueux where the supposed highest-ever temperature for France was measured.

 

In the past we've had a phoney new record set for Miami by equipment withg measurements distorted by heat radiated from new buildings nearby, and another for Scotland resulting from an icecream van parked too close to measuring equipment with its generator running full bore.

 

Brief reak hot spells like the one inflicted on France by hot Saharan winds, are not proof of global warming but further evidence of the wide fluctations in temperature to which the Earth has always been subject.

 

Newspaper reports and other evidence from the past indicates that temperatures in parts of France climbed higher decades ago than during the recent hot spell.

 

 

 

[Assurancetourix]

On 6/29/2019 at 12:30 PM, Vacuum said:

The beach still has some sand on it?

It's not Pattaya beach, is it ?

 

44 to 46 degrees celcius in the shade;
we have this almost every day from march to april in Issan for many years and so far it does not kill many people while air conditioning is still rare on our farms. 

[bristolboy]

3 hours ago, Krataiboy said:

It would be useful to confirm the location of the sensor at Gallargues-le-Montueux where the supposed highest-ever temperature for France was measured.

 

In the past we've had a phoney new record set for Miami by equipment withg measurements distorted by heat radiated from new buildings nearby, and another for Scotland resulting from an icecream van parked too close to measuring equipment with its generator running full bore.

 

Brief reak hot spells like the one inflicted on France by hot Saharan winds, are not proof of global warming but further evidence of the wide fluctations in temperature to which the Earth has always been subject.

 

Newspaper reports and other evidence from the past indicates that temperatures in parts of France climbed higher decades ago than during the recent hot spell.

 

 

 

Like most denialists you fail to understand the importance of rate of change. It's happening faster now than at any other time in geologic history since the last major asteroid impact.

 

As for your realclimatescience.com, why believe them? If they had facts that they weren't afraid of being checked, they'd put it in writing instead of in videos.

 

Here's some information from the world of real science:

The global area experiencing extreme summer temperatures has grown well over ten times larger over the past 30 years. In the past several years, the global area hit by extremely hot summertime temperatures has increased 50-fold. The fingerprint of global warming has been firmly identified in these trends.

https://www.climatesignals.org/data/record-high-temps-vs-record-low-temps

 

And there's this: in the last 365 days there have been 259 all time record high temperatures set. In that same period there have been 47 all time record low temperatures set. That's a ratio of over 5 to 1. 

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datatools/records