The heat wave recorded in the Iberian Peninsula in recent days will affect northern Europe at the end of this week and will spread to the east, and is expected to set new records in several countries, European meteorologists announced on Tuesday.
The heat that has affected Portugal and Spain has raised temperatures between 4 and 5 degrees above normal for the season, causing maximums above 40ºC.
For the rest of this week, the heat is likely to increase more, about 7°C above average, with maximum temperatures reaching 46-47°C in Seville, for example, according to experts quoted by the English newspaper The Guardian.
According to Aemet, the Spanish meteorological agency, this heat wave can last nine or 10 days, becoming one of the three longest hot flashes that the Iberian Peninsula has already experienced.
As low pressures develop in eastern Europe, intense heat from the Iberian Peninsula will also affect France, the UK and much of central Europe.
According to experts, parts of France, the UK, Germany and even the Netherlands are expected to experience temperatures above 40°C from the middle of this week.
In the UK, the all-time high temperature record is 38.7°C, set in Cambridge in July 2019.
Meanwhile, temperatures in parts of the central and eastern Mediterranean will also rise around 10°C above normal, surpassing the 40°C mark in Italy and the Balkans.
Above-average seasonal temperatures should be recorded in central, southern and western Europe on Monday of next week, with “widespread heat wave” conditionsforecasters warn, pointing the finger at the Azores and the African anticyclone.
By contrast, Scandinavia and northeastern Europe are currently experiencing more unstable weather conditions, with temperatures dropping several degrees below normal for the time. But the situation should not last long.
An advance forecast by experts from the Italian internet portal www.ilmeteo.it says that the scorching heat will not spare the countries of northern Europe.
The hot bubble will engulf Normandy [zona norte de França] with unimaginable peaks for these latitudes of up to 42 degrees”, he warns, adding that “then the heat will spread to England and then to Germany and finally to the alpine regions of Italy”.
An Italian weather model even predicts that, on Tuesday of next week, July 19, in the Po Valley region of northern Italy, temperatures should reach 42ºC, which is 20 degrees above average. .
Source: Observadora
