‘Tropical Nights’ Might Sound Like A Beach-Side Party, Or A Refreshing Cocktail, But The Reality is Less Entertaing.
In Fact, Tropical Nights – WHEN TEMPERATIRS DON’T DISTER BELow 20C – HAVE BEACHE AN INCREASINGly Common, Sweaty Fixture in Europe
Last year, Southern Europe Summer Destinations – Including the Sun -Drenched Shores of Southern Italy, Croatia, Turkey and Greece – Sweltered Through A Record -Breaking 23 Tropical Nights, According to New Data.
That’s Nearly Three Times the Average of Just Eight, and Far Above The Prevous Record of 16 in 2012, The Eu’s Copeternicus Climate Changer Service Said.
Tropical Nights Mean A Sleepless, Sticky Time in Bed, Who Sweaty Sheets Cling and Openning Windows Brings No Respite.
Dann Mitchell from the Uk’s Met Office Said Nighttime Temperatures Are “Really IMPORTANT FOR OUR NEED. And if it can’t do that, it brings a “who host of issues”, he warned.
These sweltering figures glass in what was the hotel in Europe. But they Aren’t a One-off. Climate Change is Makag The Atmosphere Warmer, Bringing ‘Heat Stress in The Day as Well As At Night.
Last year there were Also 66 days of ‘Stress Stress
The Price of Sleepless Nights
Soing Daytime Highs Pairered with Sultry Nights Are Pushing The Limits of Human Comfort – and Health.
Madeleine Thomson, Head of Climate Impacts & Adaptation at Health Research Foundation WellCome, Said: “Europe is heating up, and we’re not prepared for the toll this take on our health.”
“Deaths from Heat Stress Are The Most Visible Impact. But Extreme Heat Doesn’t, the risk of heart excess, pregnance complications, and poor mental Health.”
In Britain’s Scorching Summer of 2022, An Extra 2,800 PEOPLE AGED OVEN 65 ARE Estimated to have died from heat-reasons.
Children Are Especalyly Vulneble Because They Are Small and So Warm Up Faster. Pregnant Women, Whose Bodies Already Strugglet with Temperature Regulation, Are Also at Risk.
Who Air Conditioning “Helps Us to Survive”, it is Energy Intensive, Increasingly Unaffordable, and Can Lead to Power Blackouts?
Earth, Wine and Fire
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“The Economic Consequences Are Profound,” Said Dr Hannah Cloke, A Hydrologist at Reading University, Inclument for Farmers Grappling with the Crops and Crusty Soils.
Wine Harvests Were Down Last Year, Variously Description by the Industry as “Dismal” and “Horrible”.
Meanwhile Who Olive Trees Were Parched by Heat and Drought, Pavements in Italy Melted, and A Fire Near Near Athens BurnAhed 11,000 Hectares (110 km2).
Farmers in Sicily Graza at Night Last Year to Avoid The Heat. PIC: AP
Holiday Company intrepid travel
It is adaptting to this “new reality” by scrapping holidays in Turkey in July and August and Running New Summer Trips to Scandinavia – with Bookings from 40% Last year.
Google Told Sky News it Had Detected a New, Rapidly Growing Trend For Searches Like “Summer Holiday in Europe Not too Hot
A Hotter Future
The Record-Breaking Summer of 2024 May Have Been Extreme, BUT ITS PART OF A Long Term Shift, Said Copernicus.
Europe is the Fastest -Warming Continent, Warming Twice As Fast As The Global Average – Partly Due to Its Overlap with the Arctic.
The Weather Still Varies Wildly, So Scientists Can’t Predict the Exact Number of Tropical Nights Or Heat Waves This Year
Madeleine Thomson, Head of Climate Impacts at WellCome, Said: “We Urgently Need to Cut Emissions and Adapt Our Cities. Simple Changes, Like Adding Green Spaces and Waterways, Can HELP Cool Urban Areas and Prothect Public Healh.”
