People should learn to live with them, the World Meteorology Organization, a service, warned today, while much of the stranglehold due to high temperatures.
“Because of the climate overheating caused by humans ,. It’s something we need to learn to live with, “OMM spokesman Clare Nalis said at a press conference in Geneva.
The persistent heatwave in southern Europe has led to record temperatures in Spain, France and the Mediterranean in general, while in Portugal an impressive “rolling cloud” was formed in the sea.
Although, traditionally, July is the warmest month of the year in the northern northern north, Nalis explained that such “warm episodes” are so early in the summer. As he said, which is trapped over this area “Agerian masses coming from North Africa”.
The “urban thermal islands” make the situation difficult in cities due to the absence of vegetation that would absorb heat and construction (roads, buildings) that reflect it.
The heatwaves are “silent killers,” Nalis said. In official statistics the number of victims due to the heat is often underestimated. “It is important to emphasize that the deaths of heat can be avoided: we have knowledge, we have the tools to save lives,” he said.
Source: RES – EIA
