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The toe of Italy records Europe's all-time high-temperature record at 119.8 degrees Fahrenheit.

Reporting on the IPCC grim report has already faded within 24 hours from the news headlines, but climate change doesn’t care about sapiens lack of interest in their collective demise. It will only get hotter and hotter and hotter while heads are buried in the blistering hot sand. I suppose it all depends on what people get outraged about. Sad!

For those not aware, the Mediterranean has experienced red hot temperatures with accompanying wildfires that have terrorized the region for weeks. This particular heatwave will envelop Spain and Portugal this weekend, while Italy will finally get some relief. 

In northern Algeria, flames have only just begun to sweep across the country. All the dead in Algeria were soldiers and civilians fighting wildfires.

The wildfires are nothing compared to what we will see in the following years. We are at the beginning of the Pyrocene, an epoch of relentless wildfire. The Mediterranean does not have fire-generated lightning, so far.

soldiers in Algeria going to fight the fires knowing there is no coming back. one soldier is crying and is told “don’t cry, you are all martrys”. my heart is hurting so much. Allah yrhmaho. pic.twitter.com/LSbztXFDl6

— 𝒽𝒶𝓎𝒶𝓉𝒾🇩🇿🇮🇹 (@BintHarrachi) August 11, 2021

From Severe Weather Europe:

Extreme heatwave is challenging temperature records this week. Just a day after Italy tied with its all-time national record, the same weather station in the town of Siracusa, Sicily might shatter the European highest temperature record! This afternoon, Wednesday, Aug 11th, Siracusa has reported an astonishing peak temperature of +48.8 °C (119.8 °F). Heatwave now shifts to Spain and Portugal!

The temperature indeed has been confirmed as the hottest day recorded in continental Europe.

Nevertheless, the temperatures across a large part of the Mediterranean and northern Africa are very high. Tunisia, for instance, has set its new temperature record for August yesterday, the town of Jendouba reported +49.0 °C. The capital Tunis peaked at 48.9 °C, settings its all-time station records.

Such intense heatwaves that we are now seeing in the south are not uncommon in Europe, but they are becoming more frequent and even more extreme in recent years. One example is the historic heatwave across western Europe in summer 2019.

Not to mention the long-lasting heatwave in the southern Balkan peninsula, especially in Greece, through early August. Igniting deadly fires and destructions to many areas across the peninsula, including Turkey.

The highest temperature ever officially observed in Europe is +48.0 °C (118.4 °F), recorded in two cities, Athens and Elefsina, Greece on July 10th, 1977. While Greece was a record holder of the torch for the highest recorded temperature in Europe, Italy might just taken this unpopular title from them today.

Just recently, Greece was suffering its most intense heatwave for many years. The highest temperature was observed in the town of Langadas, northern Greece, peaking at +47.1 °C (116.8 °F).

Turkey has been dealing with some of the most severe wildfires on record there for weeks. Now this. Bozkurt, along the Black Sea. pic.twitter.com/VNWAqTwznU

— Alejandro Alvarez (@aletweetsnews) August 11, 2021

As we discussed earlier this week, the intense heatwave is nowhere to its end. While Italy will finally be released of these brutally high temperatures, the most extreme temperatures are now expected to develop over Spain and Portugal. Temperatures are very likely to surpass the 45 °C mark pretty easily from Friday through Sunday across Spain.

Greece's wildfires have also caused migrating storks headed to Africa to lose their way and crash into powerlines. pic.twitter.com/UlsQNqH0ws

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) August 10, 2021
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