#heatwave

I am becoming increasingly alarmed at the continued use of fireworks every day by stupid, irresponsible people, especially during this heatwave when the ground everywhere is so dry. It doesn’...

Specific areas in Nicosia and Limassol were left without power on Saturday early afternoon due to electricity authority fault, as temperatures hit 42C. The fault, recorded a few minutes before 3...

A yellow weather warning for extreme heat is in force on Saturday as the temperature is expected to reach around 42C inland. The warning is in force until 6pm. It ...

Two people were hospitalised with heat stroke at Limassol General Hospital on Friday. Cybc reported that one individual affected has been intubated in the Intensive Care Unit. According to an ...

Temperatures remain high on Thursday, with the met office releasing another yellow warning that will be in effect until 6pm. According to the meteorological service, temperatures inland will reach 41C, ...

Six people are hospitalised with heatstroke, including one who is intubated, state health services organisation (Okypy) said on Wednesday as soaring temperatures continue. After one patient was discharged, an 89-year-old ...

A public health group has recommended the introduction of siestas in Germany as temperatures soar in a sizzling summer heatwave. Johannes Niessen, the head of the BVOeGD public health officers ...

Soaring temperatures are continuing across Cyprus, with the met office issuing yet another yellow warning for extreme heat until 6pm on Wednesday. Meanwhile the risk of fires is on red ...

The met office has issued a yellow warning of extreme high temperatures for Thursday with the “Cleon” heatwave set to hit Cyprus. Temperatures are expected to reach as high as 43 ...

English health officials on Monday issued a heat-health alert for England in anticipation of temperatures rising above 30 Celsius (86 Fahrenheit) this week following a month of record-breaking heat. The alert, designed ...

Authorities scrambled to put out a fire in a protected national park in northern Greece on Monday, burning through acres of forest for days that is home to various species ...

Portugal has reported more than 1,000 deaths due to the current heat wave, with the health chief warning on Tuesday that the country must gear up to cope with the effects ...

Britain was forecast to see temperatures hit 40C (104F) for the first time on Tuesday after logging its warmest night on record, while wildfires raged across the parched countryside in ...

Flights to and from Britain’s London Luton airport were temporarily disrupted on Monday after soaring temperatures caused a defect in its runway, prompting airlines to delay or divert their ...

Hundreds more people were evacuated from their homes as wildfires blistered land in France, Spain and Portugal on Friday, while officials in Europe issued health warnings for the heatwave in ...

Searing heatwaves swept across China’s vast Yangtze River basin on Wednesday, hammering densely populated megacities from Shanghai on the coast to Chengdu deep in the heartlands. More than 90 red ...

Soaring temperatures in Portugal forced authorities to place more than half the country on red alert on Tuesday and deploy hundreds of firefighters to combat blazes erupting in the central ...

But climate change not the sole driver of increasing temperatures and wildfires By Annette Chrysostomou The Mediterranean has become a wildfire hotspot with huge fires raging in Turkey and Greece ...

By Stavros Nikolaou With the heat wave continuing to grip Cyprus, the labour ministry on Wednesday informed employers and the self-employed to suspend all work under direct sunlight exposure during ...

The met office has issued an extreme high temperature warning for tonight and tomorrow, as a protracted heat wave continues to grip Cyprus. The latest yellow alert is valid until 5...

As the heat wave continues to grip Cyprus, the met office has issued a new extreme high temperature warning for Thursday when temperatures are expected to reach 41C inland and 33...

A yellow weather warning for high temperatures has been issued for Tuesday. According to the met office, it is expected that between 1pm and 4pm on Tuesday the maximum temperature ...

After a protracted heat wave, there is some respite on the way with temperatures inland set to drop by 3C to 4C starting from tonight, the met office said in ...