The heatwave that was expected to arrive in 2050 in England has arrived 30 years earlier, right away. Warnings came out earlier this week that London will be over 40 degrees, 10 to 15 degrees higher than normal. It’s not just the UK that’s boiling like this.
This is reporter Seo Jun-seok.
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This is a tweet from Simon Lee, an atmospheric scientist at Columbia University in New York.
The picture above is a picture of the British Meteorological Agency’s prediction of the climate for 2050 two years ago.
Temperatures in London reach 40 degrees Celsius.
However, early this week, it was predicted that temperatures in parts of London would exceed 40 degrees.
This is 10 to 15 degrees higher than the normal temperature.
As a result, the British Meteorological Agency has issued a red heat warning for parts of London from the 18th to the 19th.
[스티브 바클레이/영국 보건장관 : ‘물과 그늘’ 등 여러 수단을 미리 준비해 두는 것이 무더위를 피할 수 있는 최선의 방법입니다.]
Not only the UK, but Europe is literally boiling all over.
In particular, many European countries are struggling with forest fires caused by high temperature and dry weather.
In the Gironde region of western France, 1,200 firefighters have been dispatched to put out the wildfire, but it has not been extinguished.
The size of the damage increased from 73 square kilometers the previous day to 100 square kilometers.
More than 3,000 people have been evacuated by wildfires in Malaga, Spain.
[윌리엄/산불 이재민 : 불길이 너무 빠르게 번져 생각할 겨를도 없었습니다. 불길이 우릴 향해 오자 누군가 물러서라고 했고, 짐들을 두고 도망 나왔습니다.]
Heatwave-related deaths have risen to 360, Spain’s public health research institute said, and Portugal’s sweltering heat has killed 238.
