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EXTREME HEAT KILLS HUNDREDS, MILLIONS MORE SWELTERING WORLDWIDE AS SUMMER BEGINS

By Gloria Dickie
June 20, 202411:04 PM GMT+2Updated 24 days ago
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As the Northern Hemisphere marked the first day of summer on Thursday, countries
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 * Hundreds dead on S.Arabia haj pilgrimage, numbers rising
 * 86 million people under heat alerts in the US
 * New Delhi records hottest nighttime temperature
 * Balkans hit by temperatures around 40 Celsius

LONDON, June 20 (Reuters) - Deadly heatwaves are scorching cities on four
continents as the Northern Hemisphere marks the first day of summer, a sign that
climate change may again help to fuel record-breaking heat that could surpass
last summer as the warmest in 2,000 years.
Record temperatures in recent days are suspected to have caused hundreds, if not
thousands, of deaths across Asia and Europe.
In Saudi Arabia, nearly two million Muslim pilgrims are finishing the haj at the
Grand Mosque in Mecca this week. But hundreds have died during the journey amid
temperatures above 51 degrees Celsius (124 degrees Fahrenheit), according to
reports from foreign authorities.
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Egyptian medical and security sources told Reuters on Thursday that at least 530
Egyptians had died while participating - up from 307 reported as of yesterday.
Another 40 remain missing.
Countries around the Mediterranean have also endured another week of blistering
high temperatures that have contributed to forest fires from Portugal to Greece
and along the northern coast of Africa in Algeria, according to the U.S.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth Observatory.
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In Serbia, meteorologists forecast temperatures of around 40 C (104 F) this week
as winds from North Africa propelled a hot front across the Balkans. Health
authorities declared a red weather alert and advised people not to venture
outdoors.
Belgrade's emergency service said its doctors intervened 109 times overnight to
treat people with heart and chronic health conditions.
In neighbouring Montenegro, where health authorities also warned people to stay
in the shade until late afternoon, tens of thousands of tourists sought
refreshment on the beaches along its Adriatic coast.

Europe this year has been contending with a spate of dead and missing tourists
amid dangerous heat. A 55-year-old American was found dead on the Greek island
of Mathraki, police said on Monday - the third such tourist death in a week.
A broad swath of the eastern U.S. was also wilting for a fourth consecutive day
under a heat dome, a phenomenon that occurs when a strong, high-pressure system
traps hot air over a region, preventing cool air from getting in and causing
ground temperatures to remain high.

New York City opened emergency cooling centres in libraries, senior centers and
other facilities. While the city's schools were operating normally, a number of
districts in the surrounding suburbs sent students home early to avoid the heat.
Meteorological authorities also issued an excessive heat warning for parts of
the U.S. state of Arizona, including Phoenix, on Thursday, with temperatures
expected to reach 45.5 C (114 F).
In the nearby state of New Mexico, a pair of fast-moving wildfires abetted by
the blistering heat have killed two people, burned more than 23,000 acres and
destroyed 500 homes, according to authorities. Heavy rains could help temper the
blazes, but thunderstorms on Thursday were also causing flash flooding and
complicating firefighting efforts.
All told, nearly 100 million Americans were under extreme heat advisories,
watches and warnings on Thursday, according to the federal government's National
Integrated Heat Health Information System.
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The brutal temperatures should begin easing in New England on Friday, the
weather service said, but New York and the mid-Atlantic states will continue to
endure near-record heat into the weekend.


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India's summer period lasts from March to May, when monsoons begin slowly
sweeping across the country and breaking the heat.
But New Delhi on Wednesday registered its warmest night in at least 55 years,
with India's Safdarjung Observatory reporting a temperature of 35.2 C (95.4 F)
at 1 a.m.
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causing nighttime temperatures to rise. In many parts of the world, nights are
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University of Exeter.
New Delhi has clocked 38 consecutive days with maximum temperatures at or above
40 C (104 F) since May 14, according to weather department data.
An official at the Indian health ministry said on Wednesday there were more than
40,000 suspected heatstroke cases and at least 110 confirmed deaths between
March 1 and June 18, when northwest and eastern India recorded twice the usual
number of heatwave days in one of the country's longest such spells.
Gaining accurate death tolls from heatwaves, however, is difficult. Most health
authorities do not attribute deaths to heat, but rather the illnesses
exacerbated by high temperatures, such as cardiovascular issues. Authorities
therefore undercount heat-related deaths by a significant margin - typically
overlooking thousands if not tens of thousands of deaths.


RECORD WARM TEMPERATURES

The heatwaves are occurring against a backdrop of 12 consecutive months that
have ranked as the warmest on record in year-on-year comparisons, according to
the European Union's climate change monitoring service.
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one of the next five years will eclipse 2023 to become the warmest on record.
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extreme temperature peaks - making heatwaves more common, more intense and
longer-lasting.
On average globally, a heatwave that would have occurred once in 10 years in the
pre-industrial climate will now occur 2.8 times over 10 years, and it will be
1.2 C warmer, according to an international team of scientists with the World
Weather Attribution (WWA) group.
Scientists say heatwaves will continue to intensify if the world continues to
unleash climate-warming emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.
If the world hits 2 C (3.6 F) of global warming, heatwaves would on average
occur 5.6 times in 10 years and be 2.6 C (4.7 F) hotter, according to the WWA.

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Reporting by Gloria Dickie in London; additional reporting by Aleksandar Vasovic
in Belgrade, Pesha Magid in Riyadh, Shivam Patel in Delhi, Ahmed Mohamed Hassan
in Cairo, Ali Withers in Copenhagen and Joseph Ax in New York; editing by Mark
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