Vote right wing! I'm sure they'll solve the problem by making you work 7 days a week and ignoring the environment. Blame the immigrants, I say. They are bringing the heat from Africa. Always blame an immigrant for your problems. Life's easier that way.
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The heat has come largely from hot air blowing in from Africa, which meteorologists forecast will continue through Sunday. Temperatures are expected to peak at 43 degrees Celsius (109 degrees Fahrenheit).
In Italy, two firefighters died putting out a blaze in the Basilicata region in the country’s south, authorities said.
Oh great, watch the British use this as an opportunity to come in and steal the rest of the Parthenon.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Acropolis in Greece shut for hours, record-breaking ocean temperatures off Croatia and plans to feed zoo animals popsicles in Italy — southern Europe is baking under a “hellishly hot” heat wave.
To beat the heat, Rome’s zoo made plans to offer popsicle respite for the animals later this week when temperatures were expected to top 38 degrees (100 F).
“It really feels like we are in an oven with a hair dryer pointed at us,” said Patrizia Valerio, who had just arrived in Rome from Varese to catch a Coldplay concert Tuesday night.
Fellow concert-goer Mattia Rossi noted that the freak storms that hit Italy earlier this summer were evidence of climate change wreaking havoc on the southern Mediterranean’s weather systems.
The climate crisis, driven mainly from humans burning fossil fuels, is now playing a role in every heat wave on the planet, scientists say, making them longer, more frequent and more intense.
The brutal heat wave hitting southern Europe has so far spared Paris, which is set to host the Olympics later this month.
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I've been the acropolis in summer, around 2018, it was hot enough and uncomfortable then at the top. I can't imagine how unbearable it must be at the moment.
To put it into perspective. 43°C is 22°C away from the standard comfort temperature of 21°C. Going the same length into colder instead of hotter, you end up at freezing temperature of -1°C compared to comfort temperature.