The launch comes after the hottest first two weeks of June ever recorded in Spain
CLIMATEWIRE | Seville, Spain, has officially launched a new pilot program to address deadly heat waves. The program, unveiled yesterday on the summer solstice, introduces a system for naming and ranking heat waves in much the same way as hurricanes.
Another heat wave scorched Spain and other parts of Europe last week, with temperatures once again soaring well over 100 degrees in some cities. According to the Spanish meteorological service, the first two weeks of June were the hottest ever recorded in Spain. “The exciting thing about addressing extreme heat is that you can do something about it,” Kathy Baughman McLeod, director of the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center , said in an interview. “People do not need to die from heat.”
Seville announced its plans for the new program last October. In the months since, the partner organizations have worked with scientists and other advisers to develop a methodology for naming and ranking heat waves. Heat waves that reach Category 3 will be assigned names. The pilot program already has designated a list of five names to be assigned this season in reverse alphabetical order: Zoe, Yago, Xenia, Wenceslao and Vega.“We are the first city in the world to take a step that will help us plan and take measures when this type of meteorological event happens—particularly because heat waves always hit the most vulnerable,” Antonio Muñoz, mayor of Seville, said in a statement.
Though Seville is the first city to implement both a naming and ranking system, other cities are pursuing similar efforts in collaboration with Arsht-Rock.
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