London recorded 95.2°F at Kew Gardens, breaking the previous 94.6°F record set the day before and surpassing long-standing records from 1922. A rare tropical night occurred in London, with temperatures not dropping below 68°F. France also saw record heat, reaching 97°F in the southwest and keeping nighttime temperatures above 68°F. Meteo-France attributed the conditions to a heat dome formed by high pressure, producing temperatures more than 10°C above normal for the season. Drownings were reported in Britain and France as people tried to cool down. Government warnings emphasized risks to life, while experts linked more frequent and severe extremes to climate change.
"A temperature of 95.2 Fahrenheit was recorded at London's Kew Gardens, Britain's Met Office weather service said, breaking the 94.6-degree record set a day earlier at Kew. The provisional readings smashed the long-standing record of 91.4 degrees set in 1922 and matched in 1944. London also recorded a rare "tropical night," defined as one in which the temperature does not fall below 68."
"Several drownings were reported in Britain and France as people tried to cool down. After a U.K. long weekend that sent people flocking to beaches, pools and shady parks, London commuters sweltered on Tuesday in subway carriages without air conditioning. Trains to and from the busy Waterloo station were disrupted by a report of smoke on t"
"The national weather service, Meteo-France, said a "heat dome," with heat held in place by a high-pressure weather front, was producing temperatures more than 10 degrees Celsius above what is usual for this time of year. Unpredictable and extreme weather is becoming more frequent as Earth warms. Experts say unprecedented and deadly weather extremes that sometimes strike at abnormal times and in unusual places are putting more people in danger."
""We know beyond a shadow of a doubt that heat wave events such as this have been made more likely and more severe due to climate change arising from our emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases," said Peter Thorne, director of the ICARUS Climate Research Centre, at Maynooth University, in Ireland. "But, nevertheless, many of the records being set, particularly in the U.K. and France, are mind-bogglingly crazy.""
Read at www.npr.org
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]