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UK Met Office warns temperature higher than 40C will be frequent in future. UK advises people visiting Greece to carry ‘appropriate insurance’ Firefighters scramble to put out wildfire in Portugal
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Met Office boss hits back at claims weather maps are ‘made scary’ as Europe burns Weather forecast for Greece as wildfires rage and second heatwave hits Monday 24 July 2023 15:28 , Maryam ...
The United Kingdom did not experience heatwaves as defined by the Met Office during the meteorological summer. [90] Nevertheless, the mean temperature in June was 15.8 °C (60.4 °F), the warmest since records began in 1884, and 0.9 °C higher than the previous record, set in 1940 and 1976. [91]
Bush fires hit Rhodes on 22 and 23 July. [62] Bush fires hit Lardos and Kiotari, Greece on 23 July. Rhodes was 49 °C (120 °F) on the 23rd, with the evacuation of tourists starting that day. Eight EU countries sent firemen to help Greece, while Israel, Jordan and Turkey sent mostly aerial equipment to the Greek fire brigade. [62]
Severe weather warnings where issued by the German Met Office (Deutscher Wetterdienst). This included a orange wind warning for northern and north-western parts of the country where strong winds are expected from the southwest, with gusts reaching 40 mph (64 km/h), potentially up to 50 mph (80 km/h) in exposed areas.
Chilling satellite image shows scale of wildfires in Rhodes. Weather forecast for Greece as wildfires rage and second heatwave hits. ... Andy Gregory in Rhodes. Rosie, a 32-year-old office manager ...
A large wildfire tearing through the Greek island of Rhodes forced thousands of tourists to flee their hotels in what Greek officials said was the largest evacuation effort in the country’s history.