China has marked its historical record of temperatures with 52.2 degrees resisted on July 16 in the Xinjiang region, while Europe fights the third heat wave of the summer and Italy could approach the maximum of the continent, 48.8 degrees, reached ago two years in Sicily.
The previous record in China was 50.6 degrees in July 2017. The 52.2 degrees were reached in the west of the country in the town of Sanbao, in the Turfan Depression, one of the lowest and hottest points on the planet. . The authorities recommended students and workers to stay at home, while special teams with nebulizers tried to mitigate the heat on the main roads of the city.
The maximum in China coincided with the visit of the special US climate envoy John Kerry to Beijing where he met with his counterpart Xie Zhenhua. “It is imperative that China and the United States make real progress in the next four months,” Kerry said, referring to the Cop28 that will be held in the United Arab Emirates just before the end of the year.
In Death Valley it reached 53.9 degrees on Sunday, in the midst of a heat wave in the southwestern United States and in one of the most intense fire seasons in California. In Canada, almost 900 fires that have already burned an area of ??more than 10 million hectares are still active. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau paid tribute to the death of 19-year-old Devyn Wales, the second firefighter to be killed in action this season.
In Italy, meanwhile, temperatures of up to 48 degrees are forecast in Sardinia and Sicily this week, while 16 cities are on red alert. The Minister of Health, Orazio Schillaci, appealed to tourists to take extreme precautions when visiting the monuments in Rome, which will foreseeably exceed 43 degrees.
CLOSURE OF THE ACROPOLIS
Over the weekend, Greece temporarily closed the Acropolis during the hottest hours. In Turkey, temperatures above 45 degrees are also expected at the start of the week.
In Spain, it is expected to reach 44 degrees on Monday in Córdoba and Jaén, where the red alert has been activated. The State Meteorological Agency has put on notice for high temperatures more than 30 provinces in 12 autonomous communities. The La Palma fire, which has burned more than 5,000 hectares and forced the evacuation of 4,000 people, has made big headlines in the European press as a sign of the “boiling point” of temperatures in southern Europe.
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