CNN —Italian authorities have issued an “extreme” health risk for 15 cities including Rome and Florence this weekend as a heatwave that is baking Europe threatens to bring record temperatures.
The ESA warned that Europe’s heatwave has only just begun with Spain, France, Germany and Poland also expected to see extreme weather, just as the continent welcomes an influx of tourists.
In the south, temperatures in the cities of Seville, Cordoba and Granada have reached 40 degrees Celsius, or 104 degrees Fahrenheit.
Meanwhile, even the normally mild region of Navarra in the north is seeing up to 40 degrees Celsius.
Heat is one of the deadliest natural hazards – more than 61,000 people died in Europe’s searing summer heat wave last year.
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