Italy may have seen Europe’s hottest day ever as Sicily’s Siracusa on Wednesday recorded the country’s “highest-ever temperature” on Wednesday. Fuelled by unrelenting temperatures enveloping southern Europe, Italian firefighters on Thursday battled hundreds of fires throughout the country’s south that killed four people.
Searing temperatures also raise concerns that even higher temperatures are potential in future, possibly even exceeding 50.0 degrees Celsius, the UK’s MET office has warned.Climate change is making heat-related extremes of weather more intense and when we think about those record-breaking temperature the chance of breaking temperature records – or coming close to breaking records – is greatly increased,” said Professor Peter Stott, who is the UK Met Office‘s lead on climate attribution.
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