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The National Meteorological Service (EMY) said in an updated emergency weather report on Sunday said that the heatwave will continue mostly unabated until Thursday, when it will post a moderate decline.

Sunday's thermal surge prevailed throughout the country with temperatures reaching up to 45 degrees Celsius in Thessaly, central Greece.

In its annual report, the National Observatory's Meteo weather service noted that 2022 was among the warmest years on record, due mainly to an extended heatwave in July and record-high temperatures in December, but also saw unusual levels of snowfall last January, during the storm dubbed Elpida.

Massive economic losses brought on by extreme heat induced by human-driven climate change are an issue now, not only in the distant future.

France, Spain and other western European nations braced on June 18 for a sweltering June weekend that is set to break records and sparked concern about forest fires and the effects of climate change.

The weather on Saturday represented a peak of a June heatwave that is in line with warnings from scientists that such phenomena will now hit earlier than usual thanks to climate change.

The Turkish State Meteorological Service has warned of a new heatwave that will scorch the country, especially the western and the northern parts, from Aug. 27 to the mid-next week.

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"The temperatures will be 4 to 8 degrees Celsius above the seasonal norms," it said in a statement on Aug. 26.

Turkey witnessed the second hottest July last month, according to data by the State Meteorological Service.

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For years, the average temperature in July across the country has been 24.5 degrees Celsius, whereas this July, temperature climbed up by 1.8 degrees Celsius, reaching 26.3 degrees Celsius.

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The fight against the fire on the Greek peninsula of the Peloponnese continues.

 Many people, including Bulgarians, were evacuated because of the fire. Tourists reported that several villages were evacuated on Saturday as fires came closer.

Record heat! The first week of August will have temperatures close to the maximum limits for our country. Monday will be the culmination of the heat wave, and in the afternoon temperatures will fluctuate between 37 and 42 degrees.

The National Weather Administration (ANM) issued on Tuesday an unstable weather warning valid nationwide in Romania during the day, and a heat warning valid mainly in the western, south-west and southern areas throughout Sunday.

In Seattle and Portland, after several consecutive days of record high temperatures that exceeded 37.7, there was a relaxation on Tuesday, but the temperatures in the cities in eastern Oregon and the cities in Idaho increased a lot, reports AP.
42.2 degrees were measured in Spokane, Washington, which is the highest temperature ever recorded in that city.