A heatwave is sweeping across parts of southern Europe and north-west Africa, with potential record-breaking temperatures in the coming days.

Temperatures are expected to surpass 40C (104F) in parts of Spain, France, Greece, Croatia and Turkey.

In Italy, temperatures could reach as high as 48.8C (119.8F). A red alert warning has been issued for 10 cities, including Florence and Rome.

On Tuesday, a man in his forties died after collapsing in northern Italy.

Italian media reported that the 44-year-old worker was painting zebra crossing lines in the town of Lodi, near Milan, before he collapsed from the heat. He was taken to hospital where he later died.

"We are facing an unbearable heatwave," Italian politician Nicola Fratoianni tweeted.

 

"Maybe it's the case that in the hottest hours all the useful precautions are taken to avoid tragedies like the one that happened today in Lodi."

Several tourists in the country have already collapsed due to heat stroke, including a British man outside the Colosseum in Rome.

 

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Oho Good luck for our stupid left gang in Sweden with the stupid Greta Thunberg, they have rwally missed out sofar on this heat when the cold have reached record-levels... Change in weather does not exist any more, it is being called climate-change and it is being used to scare all these weaklings among us...

I look at this and I think to myself as the song said; 'And we all go down together.'

1 hour ago, glegolo18 said:

Oho Good luck for our stupid left gang in Sweden with the stupid Greta Thunberg, they have rwally missed out sofar on this heat when the cold have reached record-levels... Change in weather does not exist any more, it is being called climate-change and it is being used to scare all these weaklings among us...

What do you mean that "the cold have reached record-levels..? Heat records are set at a pace that consistently is higher than cold records.

Hot records are outpacing cool by more than 10-to-1 this year as Europe, US brace for dangerous heat

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/18/weather/heat-records-outpace-cool-records-globally-climate/index.html

And that was in 2022 when a mild La Nina was in effect which tends to reduce temperatures.

If there was no global warming taking place one would expect the respect number of records set to be more or less equal. 

1 hour ago, glegolo18 said:

Oho Good luck for our stupid left gang in Sweden with the stupid Greta Thunberg, they have rwally missed out sofar on this heat when the cold have reached record-levels... Change in weather does not exist any more, it is being called climate-change and it is being used to scare all these weaklings among us...

One good indication of how little someone knows about climate science is how quickly they mention Greta Thunberg. The quicker the mention, the less they know.