And again this summer, Europe is in its power changing of the climate. Mercury is beating red, the drought, the worst in 500 years, according to EU experts, is intensifying, causing much more destruction and forests. fires they turn the natural wealth of the Old Continent into a desert.

Suffering from prolonged heat will again be felt in a few weeks. British, as over the next four days the temperature will approach 33 degrees Celsius, and in some areas it is expected to exceed them. The British Met Office yesterday issued an “orange warning” for extremely high temperatures, which will remain in effect until midnight Sunday.

University of Reading hydrology professor Hannah Cloke warned that this week’s heatwave could lead to more deaths than July because while temperatures won’t be as hot, they will last longer and put more stress on public health. During the July heat wave, 948 people died in Britain and Wales, according to mathematical models from the London School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

in the South-West France Forest fires rage in the Gironde region, reducing more than 60,000 hectares to ash. The blaze also burned 16 houses and forced thousands of residents in the area to flee their homes. Some of them were released from the rooftops where they climbed to watch the fire spread.

Since the beginning of the year, 2 million hectares of land have been burned in Spain.

More than a thousand firefighters made superhuman efforts to cope with the flames with the help of aircraft. However, the Gironde fire department announced that the fire was out of control and spread to the department of Landes. Officials estimate that the new fiery hell was caused by the re-ignition of a fire that burned in the same area a few weeks ago. Forest fires raged yesterday in the departments of Lozère and Aveyron in southern France, as well as in the Loire Valley, causing incalculable damage to vineyards.

Iberian tragedy

In Portugal, 1,200 firefighters and eight fire planes tried yesterday to contain the fire in the mountainous region of Covilha, 280 km from the capital Lisbon. The flames have burned more than 30,000 hectares of land since Saturday. At the same time, in neighboring Spain, firefighters were battling blazes in the country’s northwest, and more than 80,000 hectares burned in Galicia. According to information, most of the fires occurred due to arson. Wildfires have burned 2 million hectares of land in Spain since the beginning of the year, according to data compiled by the European satellite Copernicus.

The protracted heat and lack of rain create images of the apocalypse in European rivers. The level of the Rhine dropped sharply, causing serious delays in navigation and increased transport costs. Economists estimate that these problems could reduce Germany’s economic growth by half a percentage point this year.