Greece faces the longest heat wave in its history

Kostas Lagouvardos, research director of the National Observatoryprovided more details about the period of high temperatures that will live Greece: “According to our data, we will probably live between 16 and 17 days of wave of heat, something that has never happened in our country”.

He heat It even reached tourists and those who seek to walk around the country, since they are closed to the public all archaeological sites during the hottest hours of the day until Sunday.

For the next few days it is expected in the center of the country ttemperatures up to 45 degrees, three below the record of 48 degrees registered in the country in 1977 in Elefsina, near Athens. In the capital, the highest thermal record was reached in June 2007, 44.8 degrees.

“Absolute vigilance is necessary because the difficult moments have not passed. We are facing a new heat wave and an eventual upturn in the wind,” declared, meanwhile, the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsokakis.

The heat wave in Europe continues

The temperature in Europe It has risen twice the global average since the 1980s and by 2022 it will rise about 2.3 degrees above the pre-industrial period (1850-1900), reported the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) of the European Union (EU).

While the heat wave spans the old continent, with record temperatures in several countries in the region, the agencies in charge of studying meteorology published the second edition of the report “State of the climate in Europe 2022”, in the Sixth European Conference on Adaptation to Climate Change, held in Dublin, Ireland. In the report they explained that since the 1980s the temperature in Europe has risen twice as much as the global average temperature.

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In 2022 the temperature in the region rose about 2.3 degrees above the average for the pre-industrial period (1850-1900), the value used as a reference in the Paris Agreement on climate change.