Tens of millions of people were battling dangerously high temperatures around the world on Sunday. ECRNewsWatch
A powerful heatwave stretching from California to Texas was expected to peak, according to the US National Weather Service, which warned of an"extremely hot and dangerous weekend".Arizona's state capital Phoenix recorded 16 straight days above 109F , with residents facing temperatures of 111F on Saturday, en route to an expected 115F.
At a construction site outside Houston, Texas, a 28-year-old worker who gave his name only as Juan helped complete a wall in the blazing heat.The Las Vegas weather service warned that assuming high temperatures naturally come with the area's desert climate was"a DANGEROUS mindset! This heatwave is NOT typical desert heat".
The weather centre warned Italians to prepare for"the most intense heatwave of the summer and also one of the most intense of all time". The Acropolis in Athens, one of Greece's top tourist attractions, will close during the hottest hours on Sunday, for the third day running. There is little reprieve ahead for Spain, whose meteorological agency warned that a new heatwave Monday through Wednesday will bring temperatures above 40C to the Canary Islands and the southern Andalusia region.As torrential rains lashed northern Japan on Sunday, a man was found dead in a flooded car, a week after seven people were killed in similar weather in the country's southwest.
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