LONDON – 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.
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 US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Earth Observatory. Europe in 2024 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 June 17 – the third such tourist death in a week.
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 9,300ha and destroyed 500 homes, according to the authorities. Heavy rains could help temper the blazes, but thunderstorms on June 20 were also causing flash flooding and complicating firefighting efforts.
India’s summer period lasts from March to May, when monsoons begin slowly sweeping across the country and breaking the heat. An official at the Indian health ministry said on June 19 there were more than 40,000 suspected heatstroke cases and at least 110 confirmed deaths between March 1 and June 18, when north-west and eastern India recorded twice the usual number of heatwave days in one of the country’s longest such spells.
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