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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
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 ...
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.
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]
The Meteorological Office, abbreviated as the Met Office, [2] is the United Kingdom's national weather and climate service. It is an executive agency and trading fund of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and is led by CEO [3] Penelope Endersby, who took on the role as Chief Executive in December 2018 and is the first woman to do so. [4]
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]
Get the Rodhos, Aegean local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
Fires have been raging across Greece, including outside the capital Athens and in Rhodes, fueled by three consecutive heat waves. Five people have died in the fires, including two firefighter ...