Nearly all of mainland Portugal was on red alert for extreme heat conditions, with the temperature in the central Santarem district northeast of Lisbon expected to hit 46 degrees Celsius
, the IPMA weather institute said. The country’s record temperature of 47.3 C was registered in 2003.
With human-caused climate change triggering droughts, the number of extreme wildfires is expected to increase 30 per cent within the next 28 years, according to a February 2022 UN report.More than 1,400 firefighters backed by 23 aircraft were battling a dozen forest blazes across the drought-hit country with the two largest ones in central Portugal raging since at least Tuesday.
Parts of Extremadura, Andalusia and Galicia regions were on red alert for extreme heat, Spain’s AEMET meteorology service said, adding that temperatures could surpass the previous record of 47.4 C for all of Spain set in August 2021, and of 40.7 C in the capital Madrid.
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