![]() ![]() “The climate upheaval demands a step change from all of us, with no alibis for anyone.”īut relief is coming, even as a new area of high pressure moves up from Algeria to sit over the Tyrrhenian Sea. “In Italy we are experiencing one of the most complicated days in recent decades: cloudbursts, tornadoes, hail in the north torrid heat and devastating fires in the centre-south,” said civil protection minister Nello Musumeci on Tuesday. Red Cross workers help people coping with high temperatures in Rome (Getty Images) Italy Wall-to-wall sunshine is predicted for the following weekend (August 5), but the highs remain pretty much the same, with no alerts yet showing. The Côtes d’Azur and Bleu will be much brighter, with highs of 31C in Perpignan and 28C in Nice. FranceĪ thoroughly miserable week in France will give way to a brighter weekend, with a mixture of sunshine and cloud bringing highs on Sunday ranging from a spring-like 19C in Finisterre to a modest 24C in Biarritz. But the weather warnings are now for localised heavy rain and dangerous seas, especially in the Balearics, driven by fierce northerly winds. The interior remains hot: a persistent heatwave in the Bajo Aragon will keep Teruel at 37C, while the Andalusian city of Cordoba, the so-called crucible of Spain, will reach 40C. The latest bulletin from Spanish met office Aemet shows a welcome decline in coastal temperatures by Sunday, July 30, with highs of 32C predicted in Lloret del Mar 30C in Benidorm 36C in Malaga and 26C in Cadiz, cooled by Atlantic breezes. Evening temperatures will fall to the mid-20s. Predicted highs for Sunday, July 30 are 34C in Corfu and Crete 35C in Rhodes 36C in Santorini and just 32C in the northern resorts of Thessaloniki. With falling temperatures and a weakening of the winds that have been fanning the islands at up to Force 6 this week, Greece can look forward to a respite from the dangerous heat it has suffered over the past fortnight. National forecasts are as follows: Greece This third heatwave of the summer, though, will be different, with maximum temperatures expected to be around 35C - with a couple of exceptions. The destructive high pressure system dubbed Charon by Italian weather forecasters is weakening, but it will be replaced by another drifting up from North Africa during the coming weekend. ![]() Main photo: firefighters tackle a wildfire in Attica, Greece (Getty Images) It will still be hot - it’s the Mediterranean summer, after all - but if you’re holidaying from the weekend onwards you’ll find the weather more bearable. ![]() Searing temperatures continue to bake the Mediterranean region this week but there’s hope now of an end to the successive heatwaves and a return to seasonal averages. ![]()
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