The world’s first named heat wave hit Seville, Spain pushing temperatures past 110 degrees Fahrenheit and earning the most severe tier in the city’s new heat wave ranking system.
CLIMATEWIRE | The world’s first named heat wave hit Seville, Spain, this week, pushing temperatures past 110 degrees Fahrenheit and earning the most severe tier in the city’s new heat wave ranking system.
The worst of the heat is expected to begin tapering off today. But it has posed a significant risk to human health while it’s lasted, according to proMETEO Sevilla, Seville’s new heat wave ranking system. Spain has been grappling with extreme temperatures for much of the summer already. High heat broke local records around the country last month, and the first two weeks of June were the hottest on record in the country, according to the Spanish meteorological service.
Record-breaking temperatures also roasted other parts of Western Europe, where heat waves are intensifying as much as four times faster than they are elsewhere in the midlatitudes . Temperatures in the United Kingdom skyrocketed above 104 degrees, breaking the country’s all-time temperature record multiple times in a single day .
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