Regions of Europe could be struck by their hottest-ever temperatures next week after meteorologists issued a dire warning that the blistering heat could reach 48C, threatening people, livestock and crops.
The continent is already in the grip of a sweltering heatwave ‘Cerberus’, named after the three-headed dog that guards the gates of Hades (hell) in Greek mythology, which has pushed the mercury into the high 40s after a weather system from the Sahara moved into southern Europe.
The anticyclone, which has moved north in recent days, has caused life-threatening wildfires in Croatia, whilst tourists and locals trapped in the boiling temperatures have struggled to cope as the mercury gets set to climb above 45C in Spain, Italy, Greece and Turkey by the end of next week.
Rescue workers had to transport tourists from the Acropolis citadel in Athens to ambulances on Thursday as temperatures skyrocketed. It follows reports of the death of a 44-year-old street painter in Lodi, Italy and the tragic drowning of two children in Manfredonia on Tuesday, both thought to be seeking solace from the heat.
Ominously, experts are saying the next brutal bout of extreme heat, which will be named ‘Charon’, after the boatman who carries the souls of the dead to Hades in Greek mythology, is set to come only days later and this time records could be broken.
The hellish conditions brought by Cerberus and Charon are perhaps fitting, aside from their roles in Greek mythology, the phenomenon’s namesakes were both described in Inferno, the first part of Dante’s Divine Comedy which depicts a journey through the nine circles of hell.
Land temperatures, how hot the ground is to touch, in Spain reached upwards of 60C in regions of southern Spain on Thursday, with the European Space Agency warning next week could break continental records.
Forecasters are warning the all-time temperature record of 48.8C, which was set in Italy in August 2021, could be threatened with the mercury set to attain those heights once again on the Italian islands of Sicily and Sardinia.
It said that Italy, Spain, France, Germany and Poland are all facing a major heatwave with temperatures predicted to rise to 48 Celsius on the islands of Sicily and Sardinia, potentially the hottest temperatures ever recorded in Europe.
Meanwhile, in Britain, temperatures are expected to cool through to the weekend. Cerberus isn’t expected to have any impact on the United Kingdom, and the Met Office doesn’t expect the heatwave will reach the United Kingdom this summer.
This is all could be, might be, perhaps or maybe higher than the normal summer heat, and temperatures have always fluctuated over the years, but the controllers of world governments are now finding new ways of emptying the pockets of the gullible and global warming which we appear to have minimal control over is the latest. Next, there will be another pandemic with demands for everyone to be jabbed again.
Then there is CO2 which they will rave about and volcano’s that burp and are chucking out more into the atmosphere than they did years ago.
But here we are, the brainwashed sheeple, who don’t believe anything about this manmade Climate Crisis and say that people are conspiracy theorists or tinfoil loons.
You’ve got to love the fear factor headline and random picture, all for the sheeple.
It’s now 111F in Dubai and that’s the norm, no apocalypse there, but then I guess they’re used to that kind of heat, but even if some of Europe does get some of this Hades heat, they will manage for however long it lasts, which I suspect won’t be very long.
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