An intense heatwave is sweeping across Europe with some countries reaching temperatures above 40C. Spain, France and Italy have issued warnings about the impact of the extreme weather on health and wildfires have already broken out in Greece. This latest heatwave follows a series of extreme-heat records being broken, including Europe’s hottest March ever, according to the EU’s Copernicus climate monitor. Europe's increasingly common blistering heatwaves are a direct result of global warming, say

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The European heatwave of 2003

🇪🇺 🌡️ 🛰️ As many #European countries simmer in a deadly heatwave, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (#EUMETSAT) said its MetOp-SGA1 satellite will give "earlier warnings to help protect lives and property from extreme weather". 🚀 The satellite was launched onboard the European Ariane 6 rocket, which took off from #France's Kourou space base in French Guiana on Tuesday. | FRANCE 24 English

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