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This year, the intensity of the heat is continuously increasing in Europe, and the number of people killed by the heat in Spain and Portugal has increased to 17 hundred.
According to the details, thousands of people have been moved to safe places in France, Spain, and Portugal. According to the report, for the first time in the history of Great Britain, the temperature has gone above 40 degrees Celsius. Around 13 deaths have been recorded due to this record heat. There have been reports of 5 people drowning among those who resorted to lakes and rivers to protect themselves from the heat.
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According to a researcher from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, statistics show that most of those who died from the heat wave were elderly people.
It should be noted that due to the intense heat wave, fires have broken out in dozens of places, and trains operating up to 30 degrees Celsius have also responded.
According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a heat wave has already reached its peak in Europe, but temperatures could remain above average for another week. It is to be noted that this is happening at a time when the average global temperature has risen by just over a degree centigrade from what was seen before industrialization in many parts of the world.
According to the United Nations’ climate science body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world is now going through the hottest period in 125,000 years.
