As a result of heat -related health problems, 16 people have already died in South Korea this year. This stems from updated information published on Thursday by the Ministry of Health. Compared to the same period of last year, the number of deaths has more than doubled. According to Jonhap, TASR reports this.
From mid -May at the medical emergency 2900 patients treated due to heat -related health problems. Hundreds of thousands of livestock also died due to extreme heat.
The State Meteorological Agency said that the air temperature in Seoul broke a record of more than a century, when they recorded a tropical night on Thursday night. This means that night temperatures remain above 25 ° C from 18.00 to 9.00 the next day. This is the longest series of hot nights in July since the beginning of measurements in 1907.
Hot summer is experiencing a large part of the world and the last June was the hottest in the history of measurements for 12 countries. This stems from an analysis of the Data Data Monitoring Data Monitoring Climate Change (C3S) of the Copernicus European Union program.
