Heatwave: Red alert issued in Europe's Italy, Spain; situation to worsen in California, Texas in US
Reuters. She was visiting Vasanello, a village north of Rome In Greece, authorities told citizens close to a forest fire in Dervenochoria, north of Athens, to shut doors and windows as smoke approached. Extreme weather conditions are affecting Americans across the country.
From scorching heat in Texas and Southern California to smoke-filled air from Canada's wildfires reaching the Midwest, the situation is dire. Flood warnings are in place for Vermont towns recently inundated, while Tropical Storm Calvin is expected to hit Hawaii. Phoenix, Arizona, broke its all-time record with 19 consecutive days of temperatures surpassing 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 Celsius). Amit Ghagoji, 40, who had set out for a hike in the trails of Phoenix's Papago Park, said, "It's like you open an oven door and it's the heat wave," Bhagoji said. "If you're, like, making cookies or something and you open the oven door, it's going to hit you right in the face." As per the regional weather office, high temperatures would range between 115F and 120F (48.9C) for five to seven more days if not longer.
"It'll take probably some monsoon thunderstorms and cooling rains to come - hopefully, eventually - that will help to cool things down," Tom Frieders, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Phoenix, said. The European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service says 2022 and 2021 were the continent's hottest summers on record. Europe's highest recorded temperature of 48.8C (120F) was registered in Sicily two years ago.
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