Dozens of fires are burning
Residents and holidaymakers have fled towns and villages in France as fires are whipped up by high winds and tinder-dry conditions in several countries in Europe. More than 10,000 people have been forced to leave the south-western Gironde region in the past few days.
Dozens of fires are burning in Portugal and Spain where temperatures have surged above 40C. At least 281 deaths in the two countries were linked to the heatwave.
Meanwhile the cruise ships arrive and depart, the planes take off and land, the cars zoom, the container ships circle the globe.
Temperatures were set to top 40C in large areas of western Spain as well as Portugal on Friday. At Pinhão in the north, 47C was recorded on Thursday, a record high for July in mainland Portugal.
113F. It was 108F here last summer, and that was a record high.
“Meanwhile the cruise ships arrive and depart, the planes take off and land, the cars zoom, the container ships circle the globe.”
& the German “Greens” decline to restart any nuclear plants so they will produce less CO2 from Russian gas.
I saw a temperature index image of the Eastern Hemisphere and the whole damn thing is now brownish red, from Portugal to Japan.
Same. It’s a scary sight.