ATHENS: Greece was Saturday (Jul 22) facing its hottest July weekend in 50 years, with temperatures forecast to soar above 40 degrees Celsius, while a record-breaking heatwave stretching across the southern United States was expected to expand in the coming days. Tens of millions of people in the northern
ATHENS: Greece was Saturday facing its hottest July weekend in 50 years, with temperatures forecast to soar above 40 degrees Celsius, while a record-breaking heatwave stretching across the southern United States was expected to expand in the coming days.
Across the southern United States, about 80 million Americans will swelter in temperatures of 41 degrees Celsius and above this weekend, the National Weather Service said. "Unfortunately, on a hot day like this, these propane tanks with that expansion of heat, they literally become missiles... They can travel upwards of 500 ," Fire Captain Rob McDade told KPHO television station.
The effects cannot be attributed solely to the El Nino weather pattern, which"has really only just emerged" and isn't expected to strengthen until later on in the year. Greece, which is battling dozens of forest fires, warned people not to venture out unnecessarily due to the baking heat.
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