July 20 (UPI) – Colder weather returned to the UK on Wednesday, a day after a historic and unprecedented heatwave sent temperatures to degrees previously noticed in the country.
“London’s green spaces are still dry and pose a threat,” Khan wrote on Twitter on Wednesday. our emergency and protect each other. “
The record was originally set Tuesday in the southeastern village of Charlwood, England, when the temperature reached 102. 4 degrees F.
The previous all-time record in the UK before Tuesday was set when a temperature of 102 degrees F was recorded at the Cambridge Botanic Gardens on July 25, 2019. At least 34 sites overall surpassed the 2019 record on Tuesday night, according to the Met. Office.
“We want to deal with the reasons for this crisis now, in a different way, it will only get much worse,” he said.
London’s ambulance service said it gained about one emergency call every thirteen seconds on Monday and Tuesday, resulting in Tuesday “a tenfold increase in heat exposure incidents compared to last week and 8% accumulating in other people who fainted. “The service said Wednesday it won more than thirteen,000 emergency calls with the superior warmth.
In a country where air conditioning is not widespread, Britons flocked to beaches and spent time jumping into fountains, lakes and rivers to cool off this week. Brighton Beach, located on the southeast coast of England, was stormed when thousands of other people flocked to the coast for help.
Wednesday’s cooler weather was due to clouds and storms lashing the country, but temperatures were still expected to exceed general temperatures in some areas, London added. Temperatures in London rose to around 70 degrees F in mid-July, but the English capital is expected to succeed by 80 degrees F on Wednesday.
“We see heat waves in the UK as in other countries, but seeing temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius, I never thought I would see this here in the UK in my lifetime,” said Liz Bentley, chief executive of Britain’s Royal Meteorological Society. an interview with AccuWeather Prime on Tuesday when the heat wave peaked.
Bentley added that “the climate update has a fingerprint on this specific heat event in Western Europe. “
The heat has also led to a drop in air quality in the UK, as increased pressure on the country has trapped pollutants in the lower layers of the atmosphere, according to AccuWeather meteorologists.
This week also saw individual all-time records set in Wales and Scotland. In Wales, temperatures reached 98. 8 degrees F in Hawarden, located in the northern component of the country, surpassing the previous record of 95 degrees F, which was set on August 2. 1990 at Hawarden Bridge, Flintshire.
Scotland’s high temperature record was shattered on Tuesday when Charterhall, located near the border with England, rose to 95 degrees F. If confirmed, this temperature will eclipse Scotland’s previous maximum temperature record of 91 degrees F set on 9 August 2003.
Even as the heat subsided in Ireland and the UK, dangerously high temperatures persisted in Europe.
“AccuWeather meteorologists continue to note that while the heatwave has now eased in the UK and Ireland, as expected, the damaging excessive heat will continue further south and east over the weekend, adding parts from Germany, Poland, Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria,” AccuWeather’s lead meteorologist said. Jonathan Porter. “In addition, the heat will persist in Portugal, Spain, southern France and northern Italy for the next few days. Lives will continue to be threatened by excessive heat. “
The heat that burned the UK component of a large and fatal heatwave that ignited Europe for more than a week. The heat spread to the Iberian Peninsula and parts of southeastern Europe before spreading to the UK on Monday and Tuesday. More than 1,000 deaths have been attributed to heat in Spain and Portugal, according to ABC News. Temperatures rose well above one hundred degrees F in Portugal and the city of Pinhão reached 116 degrees F on Friday.
Thousands of others in southwestern France were forced to flee when the damaging wildfires broke out. More than 39,000 French citizens were evacuated from their homes this week, adding another 8,000 people from the Gironde region alone, due to nearby wildfires that reportedly fed on more than 44,800 acres. At least 2,000 firefighters were diligently rushing to extinguish the flames across the region this week.
“This is just the newest in a series of significant heat waves that have hit Europe in recent years,” Gerald Fleming, a longtime meteorologist with RTÉ Television, Ireland’s national broadcaster, told AccuWeather. “Now it turns out that the maximum temperature records are damaged every few years. “
Fleming referred to the densely populated spaces of southern England and said those places provide the added challenge of being subject to periods of excessive heat from the urban heat island effect.
“Climate change is now directly affecting the temperate zones of the evolved global, the global,” Fleming said. “We only have a small glimpse of the demanding climate situations that the emerging global is trying to address. “