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Europe is within the grips of a deadly heatwave as temperatures proceed to soar. Parts of Spain and Portugal recorded temperatures of 46°C.
In Italy, a 47-year-old man died after falling sick on a construction site, and a 70-year-old man drowned during a flash flood at a resort near Turin.
The extraordinary weather has also caused unique weather phenomena – in Portugal, a ‘roll cloud’ went viral after footage of the cloud was shared online.
The cloud appeared like a wave crashing within the sky, with beachgoers looking up because the sky suddenly turned dark.
The formation is more common in Australia and happens when cold air comes involved with high temperatures.
Elsewhere in Europe, wildfires have raged in Turkey, displacing tens of 1000’s of individuals in Izmir.
In France, temperatures are expected to peak on Tuesday, as Paris issued a rare red alert and shut 1000’s of public schools as a result of the deadly heat.
Greece has also been hit hard. Temperatures in Athens have led several coastal villages near the capital to issue evacuation orders as a result of fire risk.
Some regions in Italy have issued a ban on outdoor work, comparable to construction sites and gardening, through the hottest hours of the day.
‘Extreme heat isn’t any longer a rare event – it has turn into the brand new normal,’ UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres tweeted from Seville, Spain, where temperatures hit 42C on Monday.
Reiterating his frequent calls for motion to fight climate change, Mr Guterres added: ‘The planet is getting hotter and more dangerous – no country is immune.’
In Portugal – his home country – a reading of 46.6°C was registered in Mora, about 60 miles east of Lisbon.
In southern Germany, temperatures of as much as 35°C were expected on Monday, they usually were forecast to creep higher until midweek, going as high as 39°C on Wednesday.
Some German towns and regions imposed limits on how much water could be taken from rivers and lakes.
On the Berlin zoo, elephants were showered with water and bears were treated with blocks of ice containing fruit.
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