A few days before the beginning of the astronomical summer in Europe, weather information continues to leave conflicting headlines in the Old Continent, which oscillates between heat waves in some areas and strong storms in others.
extreme weather continues to wreak havoc on Europawhich records high temperatures and also intense storms in some points. Serbia is facing the first heat wave of the season and high temperatures are expected throughout the country. The highest could reach 40ºC during this week, according to forecasts, due to an anticyclone that advances towards Europe from Africa.
In Romania, residents of Bucharest deal with another wave of heatespecially since Wednesday, when temperatures also hovered around 40ºC in the southern part of the country. The heat also left summer scenes in the Romanian capital, where many residents sought refuge by cooling off in a local lake and in the fountains of a park to combat the heat, which imbued the atmosphere with a tropical feel.
In Germany, thunderstorms and severe weather hit parts of the state of Saxony on Tuesday. In the Meissen district, the gusts of wind They generated alarm, with even signs of a possible tornado in the town of Gröditz, which could not be verified. This type of rotating storm It can produce not only large hail, but also strong winds and tornadoes. Numerous power lines were left destroyed and the roofs were damaged.
Copernicusthe European Union’s climate monitoring agency, declared at the beginning of the month that the previous one was the warmest mayaccording to the global average, since there are recordswhich means twelfth consecutive month of record heat.
