Scorching temperatures across Europe forced the closure of the Acropolis in Athens for a second day.
Elderly people, young children and dogs were most at risk, experts said, urging precautions against the heat wave caused by Cerberus, a high-pressure anticyclone coming from the south and named after the three-headed dog in ancient Greek mythology who guarded the gates to the underworld.Fifteen cities in Italy, most of them in the country’s centre and south, were under heat advisories signaling a high level of risk for older adults and other vulnerable people.
A tourist poses for a photo at an entrance for the Acropolis hill, closed due to a heatwave, in Athens, on July 14, 2023.Temperatures were milder in Spain’s Canary Islands, but a wildfire on the island of La Palma caused a preventive evacuation of some 500 people. Officials warned that shifting winds and the area’s rain-parched dry terrain could increase the number of evacuees.
The heat wave also was taking its toll on water levels in Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city. The main water supply at the Omerli Dam reservoir, already at 41% capacity due to low rainfall, was losing 17,000 tons of water an hour during the early afternoon, Levent Kurnaz of Bosphorus University’s Center for Climate Change and Policy Studies told local media.
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