BBC: Wildfires rage across southern Europe as temperatures top 40C
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BBC: Temperatures climb across UK as parts of Europe battle wildfires
'Unprecedented' alerts in #France as blistering #heat grips #Europe
Kathryn Armstrong, BBC News, June 30, 2025
Excerpt: "The highest UK temperature of the day was recorded at Heathrow Airport in London at 33.1C. Meanwhile, Wimbledon recorded a temperature of 32.9C, the tennis tournament's hottest opening day on record.
"Meanwhile, heat alerts across #Spain, which is on course to record its hottest June on record, remained in place.
" 'I can't sleep well and have insomnia. I also get heat strokes, I stop eating and I just can't focus,' Anabel Sanchez, 21, told Reuters news agency in Seville.
"It is a similar situation in #Portugal, where seven districts, including the capital, Lisbon, are on the highest alert level.
"In #Germany, the country's meteorological service warned that temperatures could reach almost 38C on Tuesday and Wednesday - further potentially record-breaking temperatures.
"The #heatwave lowered levels in the #RhineRiver - a major shipping route - limiting the amount cargo ships can transport and raising freighting costs.
"Countries in and around the #Balkans have also been struggling with the intense heat, although temperatures have begun to cool.
"In #Turkey, rescuers evacuated more than 50,000 people - mostly from the resort city of Izmir in the country's west - as firefighters continued to put out hundreds of wildfires that had broken out in recent days.
"The fires were fuelled by winds of 120km/h (75 mph) and destroyed at least 20 homes.
"Wildfires also broke out in #Croatia, where red heat warnings are in place for coastal areas. An extreme temperature alert was issued for neighbouring #Montenegro."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y7781e915o
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Weather in Finland - Finnish Meteorological Institute
Includes: "Warnings, UV index, Marine weather, Weather in Europe, and Past 30 day Weather" and #climatenews!
https://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/
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BBC: Heavy snow blocks Alpine resorts in Switzerland and France
"...Although snow is not uncommon in the Alps in April, the disruption left thousands of homes in the Savoie region of eastern France without power...
Road and rail routes were cut off into the resort of Zermatt in the southern canton of Valais; power was cut throughout Thursday and mobile phone networks were badly disrupted.."
@kaffando Heavy Snow Hits Alps With Red Alerts for Rain in Central Europe
Snow halts trains in Austria between Salzburg and Klagenfurt
Switzerland hit by snow while UK sees freezing temperatures
By Eamon Farhat, Marton Eder, and Eva Brendel
September 13, 2024 at 5:34 AM EDT
"Heavy snow is disrupting transport in the Alps, while southern Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic face red alerts for heavy rain.
"Austrian railways halted trains between Salzburg and Klagenfurt due to snow, and issued a nationwide appeal to postpone travel. Snow is falling as low as 700 meters (2,300 feet), with as much as 200 centimeters (79 inches) forecast at high altitudes in the four days through Monday.
"Less than a week after parts of Switzerland were baking in late-summer heat, up to 45 centimeters of snow is forecast for eastern regions above 1,600 meters. At the Aiguille du Midi, reached by France’s highest cable car in the resort of Chamonix, the temperature dropped to -16C (3.2F) on Friday.
"After the Mediterranean was seared by a succession of heat waves over the summer, a cold weather system is gripping much of Europe, with freezing temperatures in the UK and torrential rain in Bavaria. Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, including violent storms and flooding."
Archive:
https://archive.ph/B8A69
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European Fire News via @CopernicusEU
"Another source for identification of active fires [in #Europe] is built through firenews: the news items are selected from a large set of RSS feeds published by various forest fires related sites, and from news feeds filtered out with appropriate keywords. Items from selected feeds are then geolocated and published on the #EFFIS web site, in the #FireNews section."
https://forest-fire.emergency.copernicus.eu/apps/firenews.viewer/
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