A broiling heatwave, which has swept Europe with record-breaking temperatures last week, is about to hit Turkey, Hürriyet newspaper reported on Monday, citing an expert.
The heatwave will spread across the country by Friday and will last at least a few days, meteorologist Orhan Şen told the newspaper.
Europe was stifled by a heatwave last week that caused hundreds of deaths and devastating wildfires that started to move north by the weekend, nudging the temperatures to record highs in Britain, according to Reuters.
The extreme temperatures that mainly affected Portugal, Spain and France in southern Europe, caused 510 heat-related deaths in Spain, Reuters said.
“The blistering heat that has been affecting Europe for days is expected to continue until Tuesday. The heatwave will spread to southeast Europe after Wednesday,” Şen said.
Şen told Hürriyet daily that Turkish citizens should get ready “to bear the brunt of sweltering heat.”
Eight people have been killed and forests across swathes of Turkey’s Mediterranean and Aegean coasts have been razed to the ground as the country fought blazes and massive floods last summer, blamed on climate change.
Turkish parliament ratified the Paris Agreement, the legal- binding international treaty on climate change, adopted by 196 countries, in early October last year, becoming the final member of the G20 to legislate the 2015 deal.
Ahval