Heatwave grips Eastern Europe after Germany weather breaks records
The deadly heatwave that’s set temperature records across western Europe for more than a week has shifted east to scorch Hungary, Romania and the Balkans.
Hungary’s Budapest is expected to top 40 degrees Celsius (104F) on Tuesday, according to models from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.
Belgrade in Serbia and Bucharest in Romania will reach 38 degrees and 37 degrees, respectively, on Monday.
Red warnings for extreme heat have been issued in Poland, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Slovakia.
Similar alerts are still in place for parts of southern and western Switzerland.
The intense and unusually early heat event underscores how climate change is transforming summers in the world’s fastest-warming continent.