Is climate change to blame for extreme heat in Europe? - BBC News

Europe is experiencing extreme temperatures this week, with hot weather set to continue for the foreseeable future.

In Spain, temperatures have hit 43C (109F), and in neighbouring Portugal, wildfires have broken out as a result of the weather.

Is climate change to blame for this scorching heat?

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[jimsykes]

You said the story was going to be about whether climate change is to blame for the heatwave. What we got was 98% of the time devoted to people complaining that they're hot and 2% of an expert saying the situation is bad.

[dozz]

Nah, after decades of warnings about the environment and how we're affecting the climate, all this is a total coincidence....

[Ricky_]

I live in Rome. I've seen fires a couple of times before during Summer. This year, I've seen 7 fires (or at least the smoke from the fires) since the beginning of June and that's only the ones I was able to see with my own eyes. There have been a lot more. One of the worst ones was the one that happened last Saturday. I was 50km North of Rome for an event. I could literally see a massive fire in South-East Rome all the way from there. The weather here has been crazy. We've been able to get slightly lower temperatures in the past few days but for most of Summer, temperatures have been over 35°C so far

[HK-gmpe]

yeah we just had a heat wave like never before in Northern Europe....now its getting normal again but June was totally unbearable for the people who have been used to colder climate

[Gjon]

Yes the climate changes. It's called the 4 seasons. In the winter they will run stories of how cold its gotten. What a joke.

[claudiocilia]

Is Climate Change to blame? It's like asking; Is water wet? Is the sky blue? Do pigs fly? 🙄

[CoolDudeClem]

This heat is ridiculous, 31c up in my room, and the roads at a tyre melting 48c. (yes I'm such a geek I measured the road temperature)

[journeysalkebulan]

Madrid, Bilbao and Vitoria gasteiz is hot. Yesterday was miserable in Vitoria Gasteiz and today so far. I'm here visiting and the heat is no joke!

[Kadbros]

43 degrees C! Wow, the temperature ain't that high in Jamaica, and we are really close to the equator. It's mostly sunny too. Though I do see fires here and there on a particular hillside

[bphater]

"Omg it's so hot I'm melting.. I will get a heatstroke" says the people standing and walking outside and at a beach.... 🤨
I'm in indoors.. enjoying my gelato in Italy. Go out at night for a nice dinner. Italy has great food

[I.____.....__...__]

0:41 "Umbrellas even though there isn't a drop of rain" - It's called a parasol.

[meejinhuang]

If this happens every year then yes, the earth's average temp is going up.

[johnlacey]

It’s not just in Europe, across the world. Things must change.

[unknown]

Well the Maldives were supposed to be underwater every year for the last 30 years. It's called a heatwave.

[ReviewBoard-uynv]

We need to restore microclimates in dry areas and cement cities. Climate change is to blame, but city planners are not changing anything.

[TheSnoopall]

This is another of those empty news items suppose they have to keep themselves in a job.

[alfafalk]

We have had a very stubborn pattern over Europe, with an Atlantic blocking high sending in narrow ridges over central Europe. And a very strong jetstream on the Northside of the high. That hade makes it almost impossible for the hot air mass in the South, and the much cooler Greenland originated airmass In the north to interact with each other to even temperatures out and produce low-pressure areas with rain.

In the Nordic countries the weather on the contrary is quite cool, windy and lot of rain showers. With temperatures below normal.

Over the very north end of continental Europe there is an extremely sharp line dividing hot and cool airmasses, and none of the airmasses seem able to cross that line of high-pressure ridges and strong jetstream.

So the heat and the drought kind of air mass in centra south Europe have nowhere to go, giving the situation we se right now.

Usually when we see this extreme contrasts in airmasses, it usually explodes with large intense thunderstorms and a lot of rain, but for some reason, it's just not happening now.

A week a head from here there's a chans for more dynamic patterns to break the locked pattern wer'e sucked in right now, and that might be quite dramatic.

[maldini]

Climate change isn't to be blamed it's just a change in climate😒

[nightcorefree]

extreme heat here in central europe we are freezing

[TheKnexMaker]

they can at least start by replacing all the trees and plants that have been taken away from our cities and suburbs that give lots of shade to the people walking. people will choose an airconditioned car or van over walking in the extream heat. but giving them lots of shade and cooling places to walk to incorage more people to walk, there for useing less petrol and desal.
its an easy thing we can do in the mean time while we wait for stuburn gouverments to invest in the creation of green energy and puitting in the infastructure for ev's
also we are at the point where that alonge wont have a big impact, just for comfort.
we need co2 extraction now. because changing habbits its too late