Rome: Italian authority on Wednesday (local time) said that Sicily Island may have set a hot record of all time for Europe, with a temperature of 48.8 degrees Celsius (119.8 degrees Fahrenheit).
Notes in Italy are confirmed by the Sicilian authorities but need to be officially verified by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which CNN reported.
“There are currently no reason to cancel it, but if possible we will evaluate the former post on the accuracy of size,” said Sicilian agrometeorological information services, the official weather station operator Sicily.
The city of Siracusa reached a record as an Anticlon referred to by Italian media reports as “Lucifer” swept and continued to move up the country, reported CNN.
In addition, persistent heatwives around the Mediterranean in Europe and North Africa have contributed to some of the worst fires seen there for years.
Previously, the hottest temperature ever recorded in Europe was 48.0 ° C (118 ° F) in Athens, Greece in 1977, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
As per scientist, it is a climate crisis that makes heat waves and fire more often and intensely, and therefore more destructive, CNN reported.
The authoritative report by the United Nations International Panel on climate change published Monday said that 38 weather conditions that promote forest fires became more likely in southern Europe during the last century.
Globally, heat waves and droughts the worsening fire have increased too.
The temperature around the Mediterranean has been 5 to 10 degrees C higher than the average of the week and dozens of people have died in forest fires in tears in all of South Europe and North Africa, mostly in Algeria, where at least 69 people have been killed.
Death has been recorded in Turkey too, who now also experienced flooding on the Black Sea Coast, leaving at least nine dead.
The Italian and Greece sections have also been beaten by fire, where some villages have been largely destroyed, CNN reported.