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The heat wave that has engulfed southern and central Europe is making its way north. Heat with low rainfall means almost half of the EU’s land area will be affected by drought this summer, a report says.
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Western Europe is in the grip of a brutal heat wave that is breaking records and spreading further north than ever before. Britain recorded its highest temperature ever at over 104 degrees in London. And fires have raged across Portugal, Spain and France, killing hundreds. NPR’s Eleanor Beardsley reports from Paris.
ELEANOR BEARDSLEY, BYLINE: I just left my apartment on the street. And I’ve lived here for a long time and I don’t think I’ve ever felt such hot air. It is 8 o’clock at night. The sun is still baking and there is a hot wind. It doesn’t feel like Paris.
FRANCOIS JOBARD: I am Francois Jobard. I am a weather forecaster at Meteo France in Paris.
BEARDSLEY: Jobard admits it doesn’t feel like Paris, where the average summer temperature is about 80. He switches to French to get more technical.
JOBARD: (Through interpreter) It was 105 degrees this afternoon, the second-hottest day on record in Paris in the 150 years since the first weather station was installed in Central Park in 1873. From then until 2019, there has been only one day when it was hot, and that was in 1947.
BEARDSLEY: Jobard says heat waves will become more frequent and more intense because greenhouse gases have undeniably caused global warming. He says the current heat dome is due to air from North Africa and the Sahara desert getting stuck over Europe. Sebastian Mernild is professor of climate change and glaciation at the Climate Institute of the University of Southern Denmark. I got him on the phone in Italy, where he is on vacation.
SEBASTIAN MERNILD: That’s right. So I’m walking down the street with my family here.
BEARDSLEY: Mernild says the warm air from Africa is moving further north because the jet stream is weakening and becoming more unstable. And it’s happening because temperatures in the Arctic are rising faster than anywhere else.
MERNILD: The Arctic is actually warming, roughly, on average three times faster than the average global temperature change.
BEARDSLEY: The Arctic is warming three times faster than anywhere else. Mernild says everything will get worse until we reduce our greenhouse emissions. In Paris, most apartments do not have air conditioning. I wanted to see how the Parisians are coping.
ADNAN ABADI: (Speaks French).
BEARDSLEY: I pull down the shades to keep the sun out and close the windows all day. And when I wake up in the morning very early, I open them and try to get some fresh air. And I have the fans go, says Adnan Abadi.
(Speaking French).
Another woman tells me she doesn’t have time to talk because she has an ice pack that’s melting. And her little son, who is holding her hand, is not well from the heat and the sun. Many people say they haven’t felt heat like this since the summer of 2003, when more than 30,000 mostly elderly people died across Europe, with 14,000 deaths in France alone. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Paris.
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