Europe is experiencing unprecedented heatwaves, breaking records and posing significant risks to life, with climate change identified as the primary driver, exacerbated by atmospheric conditions and potentially influenced by El Niño.
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I find it quite unbearable and I think
it is a sign of
big climate change. London is not city
that's meant to be hot.
>> Temperatures not only set to break June
records here, but could get [music] very
close to an all-time record as well.
>> Well, but even um now went to the shop,
there's like no water in the shops. It's
all like really hot.
>> The local paper Nice-Matin [music]
saying heat is coming for us.
>> El Niño is not just knocking on the
>> Red heat alerts indicating a potential
danger to life have been issued across
parts of the UK, France, Italy, and Spain.
Spain.
Over the next 10 minutes, we're going to
tell you how long these kinds of
temperatures will last, how dangerous it
could be, how to stay safe, and whether
El Niño is to blame. Well, straight to
our climate reporter Esme Squalid. And
Esme, tell us what is actually going on?
>> In this particular heatwave, what we've
got is effectively a static air of high
pressure, and it's just sitting over
Europe at the moment, and that's
trapping all the heat underneath. At the
same time, we're getting winds pulling
up hot air from northern Africa, which
is making it even hotter. And it might
even feel worse than normal heatwaves,
and that's because the humidity is so
high at the moment, which is making it
really hard to sweat. But it's worth
reminding people these types of frequent
heatwaves at these levels of
temperatures are just not normal, and
very much climate change is driving
these types of events.
>> Esme, back to you in just a second
because I want to talk to you about
these comments from the UN Secretary
General earlier today.
>> Climate disasters are becoming more
frequent, more destructive, and more costly.
costly.
And the World Meteorological
Organization has warned we ain't seen
nothing yet.
El Niño is not just knocking on the
door. It risks blowing the house down.
>> So, Esme, how much is El Niño to blame
for all of this?
>> Well, let's just recap on what El Nino
is. Effectively, it's a natural weather
phenomenon that we get every sort of 2
to 7 years. Effectively, what happens is
natural winds change their pattern and
we get a shift of hot water into the
central and eastern Pacific. But that
change, very far away from some people,
can change weather patterns all over the
world. Now, there isn't a strong link to
heat waves in this particular region of
northern Europe, but it does drive up
heat, particularly in Southeast Asia and
Australia, and we're going to be keeping
a close eye on how that might affect
them in the coming months.
>> And how much hotter could it actually get?
get?
>> Well, I mean, over this week, we're
expecting temperature records to fall
across Europe and within the UK. Not
just daytime temperatures, but also
nighttime temperatures, and that really
affects the ability of the body to cope
with this. But the Met Office, the UK
Met Office, has pointed out that we are
going to anticipate that these
temperatures for our summers will
continue to rise in the coming decades.
They think within the next 20 years, it
will be normal for us to get
temperatures in the early 40s for
repeated summers. So, climate change is
very much changing how summer can be for
people living in the UK and in Europe.
>> It really is. Esme, thank you. Some
parts of Spain have made entry to
swimming pools free for the duration of
the heat wave, with water fountains and
sprinklers also running uninterrupted
throughout the day to help people
actually cool down. Our correspondent,
Guy Hedgcock, sent this from Madrid.
>> It's very unusual to see very high temperatures
