Severe Heatwave in Europe: temperatures 10-12°C over average, wildfires, while a lake was dried up

17 luglio 2024
ore 19:11
di Emi Dinopoulou

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Prolonged heatwave and temperatures over 40°C: July continues to bring temperatures 10-12°Cabove average in Europe and especially in central-eastern Europe, Italy and the Balkans, after June which marked as the 12th month of global temperature reaching 1.5°C. A high pressure system is dominating for a long period much of Europe and especially southern and eastern with temperatures reaching over 40°C locally and peaks of 43-45°C. The countries that had been influenced the most are Italy, the Balkans, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Ukraine.

EXTRAORDINARY
ROMANIA had its HOTTEST NIGHT EVER again with a min of 29.8C at Orovita. 27.6c Tmin at Sulina.
Kherson,UKRAINE also record again:Tmin 26.2C.
Records are falling allover Central/Eastern Europe except for Italy which remained untouched,like all the previous months. pic.twitter.com/d9VJmAd8Ru
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) July 17, 2024

Historic heat in HUNGARY: records are falling in all major cities
After Budapest, also Pecs had its hottest night in history with a minimum temperature of 27.4C.
Yesterday 38.7C at Debrecen broke its monthly records.
Hundreds of records are falling in Eastern Europe. pic.twitter.com/NcXkuaV7hL
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) July 17, 2024

A lake in Serbia was dried up for the first time: The Rusanda salt lake in northern Serbia, in the northern province of Vojvodina, which contains medicinal mud was dried up for the first time due to the prolonged heatwave with extreme high temperatures.

The Balkans, along with much of Europe: Croatia, Montenegro and North Macedonia, with temperatures of around 40 C are witnessing a prolonged heatwave causing forest fires. In Serbia, the Rusanda salt lake in the northern province of Vojvodina, dried up for the first time ever. pic.twitter.com/r5hgkIIzSP
— Do You Know ??? (@keke0555) July 17, 2024

Wildfires in parts of Europe: The consistent heat wave has brought drought to much of southern and eastern Europe, creating favorable conditions for the wildfires to occur. Already North Macedonia, Albania and Greece had experienced wildfires. On Sunday, North Macedonia declared a state of emergency due to forest fires.