The heat|The coming summer is expected to be warmer than usual all over Europe. A foretaste of this was given last week in Greece, where an exceptional heat wave has led to the deaths of tourists.
Record breaking Five tourists have already died in a few weeks in Greece, which is being tormented by a heat wave. In addition, at least two tourists are still missing on the Greek islands.
Last Saturday a 74-year-old Dutch tourist who had been missing for several days was found dead on the island of Samos near the west coast of Turkey.
Last week, on the other hand, a 67-year-old television journalist and doctor Michael Mosley died of suspected dehydration and heatstroke on the island of Symi.
In addition, three tourists were reported dead on the island of Crete within a week. A 67-year-old tourist on Wednesday died to a heart attack while walking near the town of Réthymno. On the same day, a 70-year-old Frenchman was also reported dead on a beach walk in the town of Siteia. An 80-year-old tourist on Friday was found dead near the city of Mália.
The search is on for two missing American tourists Mathrák too and Amorgos on the islands.
In recent weeks, Greece has suffered from the heat.
Tourists in Athens on the Acropolis hill in July 2022. Last week, the hill was closed in the afternoons for a few days due to the heat.
Islands and mainland Greece have suffered from extreme heat in the past week. The temperatures have hurt over 35 degrees in many places, even the highest in Crete close to 45 degrees.
With the heat, schools were closed in the country and working outside during the afternoon was restricted. Acropolis hill in Athens was closed for the afternoons on Wednesday and Thursday.
“This heat wave will go down in history,” described the meteorologist Contribution Giannopoulos A British newspaper for the Greek state television channel ERT of The Telegraph by.
“In the 20th century, we never had a heat wave before June 19. There have been several in the 21st century, but none before June 15.”
In the future during the week, the extreme temperatures will ease a little in Greece, but the country will probably not be cold. Hellenic Meteorological Institute expect temperatures will remain at their highest above 30 degrees until the end of the week. Temperatures of up to 37 degrees have been predicted for Tuesday.
The record heat wave perhaps gives some indication of the coming summer. in Europe The EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) climate service expect the summer to be warmer than average. Southern Europe is expected to have a drier summer than usual, while the north is expected to be wetter than average.
During the next six months, the surface water temperatures of the seas are also expected to be higher than usual almost everywhere in the world.
Warm sea waters, especially in the Atlantic, will have an effect on temperatures and rainfall in Europe, says a meteorologist Rosie Mammatt University of Reading for the Telegraph.
Dry summer brings with it the risk of wildfires, which raged particularly strongly in the Mediterranean countries last summer.
In Greece, record temperatures fueled wildfires across the country last July, and for example In Rhodes tens of thousands of local residents and tourists had to flee the fires.
The minister responsible for the rescue service of Greece Vassilis Kikilias said last week that the high temperatures and strong winds of the previous days created a special wildfire danger.
“Early heat waves combined with a dry winter will lead to a very difficult fire season,” he said According to Euronews.
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