Parts of Europe are having a devastatingly hot summer. Already we’ve seen heat records topple in western Europe in June, and now a heatwave nicknamed “Lucifer” is bringing stifling conditions to areas of southern and eastern Europe.
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| Searching for respite from the heat in one of Rome’s fountains. |
Several countries are grappling with the effects of this extreme heat, which include wildfires and water restrictions.
Temperatures have soared past 40℃ in parts of Italy, Greece and the Balkans, with the extreme heat spreading north into the Czech Republic and southern Poland.
Read the piece by a Climate Extremes Research Fellow from the University of Melbourne, Andrew King, in The Conversation - “Southeast Europe swelters through another heatwave with a human fingerprint.”
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