Unprecedented heatwave: Behind the ‘Indian’ summer in Europe, climate change and an African scorcher | The Indian Express

Unprecedented heatwave: Behind the ‘Indian’ summer in Europe, climate change and an African scorcher | The Indian Express: "What lies behind the extraordinarily high temperatures experienced across Europe this week? Meteorologically, it is the result of the development of an area of high pressure above the Iberian Peninsula, which pushed hot winds north and east up to the southern Baltics, Belarus and western Ukraine, and as far north as southern Scandinavia.
Alongside have come the familiar warnings that the world’s climate has changed fundamentally — bringing with it extreme, and sometimes catastrophic, weather events.
The United Nations has issued an unusual safety advisory, and the World Health Organisation (WHO) and World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) have warned of future heatwaves in places where they have never occurred before."



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