While France is facing a very intense heat wave, its European neighbors are also not spared, such as the Iberian Peninsula, which laments more than a thousand deaths as direct victims of this heat wave.
desert temperatures. In about a month’s time, Europe experienced two extreme heat waves with temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius. If the peak of heat is expected on Monday in France, the Iberian Peninsula is facing, since last week, a veritable furnace responsible for nearly a thousand deaths, as reported by local media and the Brazilian News Agency. fulbras.
On the night of Saturday to Sunday, the Portuguese General Directorate of Health reported a report indicating that there had been 659 deaths in the past seven days, with a heat peak that reached last Thursday in the Viseu region, 300 km from Lisbon, where temperatures exceeded 300 kilometers from Lisbon. 47 degrees Celsius.
In Spain, the Carlos III Health Institute has recorded 360 deaths related to the high temperatures in the country.
Abnormally high temperatures
As in France, the Iberian Peninsula is also facing fires caused by the heat wave. On Sunday, the Spanish authorities were fighting 20 fires that were still active and out of control. In Galicia, a region in the northwest of the country, about 4,500 hectares have been destroyed.
In Malaga, Andalusia (south), 3,000 people have left their homes to escape the numerous fires. Temperatures reached 42 degrees Celsius in the regions of Aragon, Navarre and La Rioja on Sunday, according to the Spanish Meteorological Agency. Even if temperatures are expected to drop on Monday, they remain, nevertheless, “abnormally high”.
In Portugal, 1,000 firefighters have been mobilized to try to control 13 forest fires, the largest of which is near the town of Chaves. Almost all of the territory of the Red Vigil was at risk of “extremely severe” fire. The fires have destroyed between 12,000 and 15,000 hectares, according to official figures cited by Folhapress.
