While firefighters are battling the blaze in Malaga, more than a thousand people have been evacuated. Next week, the heat wave will creep up against Britain, which today has declared a state of national crisis. “Extreme heat” in the UK The British Meteorological Institute warns of “extreme heat” on Monday and Tuesday next week. This is the first time that the department has warned of such extreme temperatures up to 40 degrees at what is described as the red level. The British Meteorological Institute has issued a danger warning. Photo: Screenshot / Met Office It can lead to danger of traffic problems, power outages and risk to life and property. – Britons are not particularly used to high temperatures. It has never been measured 40 degrees there. It is first and foremost southern areas that are affected, Scotland escapes, says the state meteorologist, says John Smits. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reports that the ongoing heat wave in Europe will lead to a rapid increase in pollution in the atmosphere. It is especially in urban areas that pollution will increase. This is because pollutant particles are trapped in the air. The air is still without much movement and wind in the heat, John Smits explains. – So the pollution particles accumulate. This leads to poorer air quality, which affects the health of vulnerable people. Huge forest fire in Malaga More than 1,000 people have been told to evacuate this afternoon after a large forest fire in Malaga. It reports the local newspaper Malaga Hoy. The evacuation is taking place in the towns of Alhaurín el Grande and Alhaurín de la Torre, according to the newspaper. Infoca, the service for extinguishing forest fires in Andalucia, tells Malaga Hoy that it is too early to say anything about what caused the fire. There are forest fires in several places in Europe. Due to the extreme heat in Southern Europe, it has been difficult for firefighting services to gain control. Norwegian Marit Breen says that earlier today she could see the flames from her balcony, but says that it now looks as if it has subsided. The glacier fits an apartment in Alhaurin de la Torre. – We have not received any information about evacuation, and it looks like it is decreasing greatly. Around 1 pm, it reflected yellow from flames, now it looks as if there is a cloud over the mountain, Breen tells news. She says that she had not caught the forest fire before some neighbors gave notice. Smoke from the balcony of Marit Breen. Photo: PRIVATE Forest fires in Portugal Portugal has introduced a state of emergency due to the forest fires. On Thursday, more than 3,000 firefighters were deployed to put out forest fires that have hit Portugal. More than 25,000 acres of forest have been burned in the country this week. At least 30 houses have been damaged. On Wednesday, as many as 200 different fires were counted. A firefighter is fighting the flames in the municipality of Alvaiazere, in the middle of Portugal. The country has been hit by many hundreds of scograms this week. Photo: PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP – Yesterday it was measured 47 degrees at a place in Portugal. It is a June record if the measuring station is not canceled later. From before, the record in the country is 47.4 degrees in August for a few years back, says John Smits. Smits is a state meteorologist at news. – Spain has temperatures in the mid-40s today. Fortunately, it is not so hot in so many places. On the coasts of Spain and Portugal, it is not so bad, he says. news’s state meteorologist, John Smits, also works at the Meteorological Institute at Blindern in Oslo. Norway is too far away to be hit by the heat wave that is now taking place further south in Europe, he says. Photo: Tore Meek / NTB Hottest in Finnmark Climate researcher Tore Furevik has warned that Norwegians do not understand how extremely dangerous the heat waves in Europe are. – They are deadly, not only for nature and animals, but also for humans. There is a clear connection between the death toll in the summer and high temperatures, says Furevik to NTB. Firefighters are trying to put out a forest fire outside Madrid. Spain and Portugal are experiencing their second heatwave in less than a month. Photo: Bernat Armangue / AP At the same time, it takes a lot for the extreme temperatures to reach all the way to Norway. Geographically, Norway is too far from the hot air core area in northern Africa, says state meteorologist Smits. – But we had a round at the end of June and the beginning of July when it was measured 32.5 degrees in Banak in Finnmark. Finnmark has been the warmest in Norway this summer. For the heat to get so far north, it must come “backwards”, Smits explains. – The heat can not come from the north or west. It must come from the east or southeast, from Russia and into Finnmark. If the wind comes from the other way, the temperature quickly drops 20 degrees.
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