Extreme global weather continues as heatwave set to peak in Europe

 we begin at this hour in Europe with the

heat wave that is tearing across the

south of the continent temperatures in

the central Mediterranean are expected

to Peak today this is Italy where there

are warnings that the extreme heat could

continue for a further 10 days

temperatures there could reach 46

degrees Celsius on the island of

Sardinia while hot weather alerts are

also in place across most of Spain there

have been reports of power Cuts in some

areas as demand surges because of air

conditioning

well here's why it is so hot a high

pressure system held in place by the jet

stream a rapidly moving flow of air high

in the atmosphere is funneling heat up

from the deserts of North Africa and

across southern Europe

live now to our climate editor Justin

rollout who's in Alicante in southern

Spain Justin High just after 9 A.M there

how's it feeling

well it's hot you won't be surprised to

hear Samantha the Sun's Up blazing sun

temperatures are rising when I got up

this morning at about 6 30 it was 27

degrees it was 30 degrees when I went to

bed at night so really high temperatures

at night and that's the the kind of

level at which we start the day

temperatures Rising here we're expecting

here in Alicante to hit the late 30s but

Inland from here where it's drier and

therefore hotter it's going to be like

43 maybe 44 degrees Celsius Celsius

Spain in Northern Spain yesterday there

was a temperature of 47.1 degrees

Celsius record it's a really hot

temperatures here in Spain in Italy and

that hot weather that you described just

now is going to be moving across

southern Europe and into Greece over the

course of this week so really very very

high temperatures here

they compare obviously we're looking at

record temperatures but Spain for

example has seen increasing temperatures

over the last few years haven't they

they certainly have and behind it all of

course is the effect of climate change

pushing out the uh the the the the

temperature extremes so what climate

change gives us is longer heat waves and

higher Peaks so some of the temperatures

we've been experiencing this week in

southern Europe are almost 10 degrees

above normal and that's because the

whole distribution of temperatures has

been skewed and what's so extraordinary

is that we've got three very similar you

describe the anticyclone the high

pressure system over Europe we've got

very similar anticyclones Over America

and over China as well so record

temperatures in across three con

continents uh in the northern hemisphere

during this incredibly hot summer and

I've got to say we're expecting even

hotter temperatures next year yeah

Justin why is that then what are

scientists saying about why higher

temperatures next year

well what we've got this this year is is

I mean this year was unexpected these

heat waves were not predicted we thought

this would be a warm year but not a

particularly not extremely hot year what

we've got happening is an El Nino which

is a warming of the tropical Pacific

which delivers an extra blast an extra

puncture heat to the the global system

it doesn't sound like much it's an 0.2

degrees Celsius on average but enough to

push temperatures again a little further

into record temperatures that started

this year it's going to Peak in October

and November and sort of deliver the

main heat in the in 2024 so at the

beginning of the year scientists would

say you know this year will be warm will

be hot but it's not likely to be

exceptional it's next year they were

worried about well we've got an

incredibly hot year this year and as I

say scientists are saying next year is

likely to be even hotter okay Justin go

and get some shade thank you for now

well our reporter Chris Brockman is in

to lose and gave us an update from there

just an hour ago it was already 23

degrees this will probably be the

hottest part of France today we expect

40 41 place called Albi mediters no well

to UNESCO heritage site will be 4142.

obviously it gets hot in summer it gets

hot down here a lot but what we're

seeing so much more often now is these

peaks of 40 degrees on a regular basis

and climatologists who have been

studying this region and Bordeaux say

that they will have temperatures here

equivalent to North Africa Algeria Iran

and Algiers in less than 20 years time

unless something's done about this

climate change and we're seeing

temperatures rising two to three degrees

here that's what we're talking about on

an annual basis

well our U.S West Coast correspondent

Sophie long is in Las Vegas where

consistently high temperatures are

showing no signs of easing this is the

desert so they are used to high

temperatures but nothing really like

this they thought it was going to break

the record for the hottest day ever in

Las Vegas yesterday it stopped just

short of that but I mean it's past 10

p.m here now and it's still very very

hot you can probably see there's a bit

of a breeze which makes things slightly

more bearable but um it's a very hot

wind you can feel the heat from the

ground still coming up through my shoes

and one of the reasons it's been so

difficult for people to cope with here

is because just before this heat wave

struck they were actually experiencing

much cooler temperatures than normal

they recorded 260 days more than 260

days of temperatures below 100 degrees

Fahrenheit which is a cool record for

Las Vegas so the heat came over the July

4th holiday weekend and it came with a

Vengeance and there's been no let up

since and that meant that people had

very little warning and very little time

to acclimatized and it's not just here

of course Phoenix Arizona as well 18

executive days of temperatures above 43

Celsius so that's the situation here

it's still hot and it shows no sign of

changing

Sophie long there well at midnight last

night the temperature to weather station

Death Valley Arizona was still 49

degrees Celsius reported as

provisionally a new record for a

midnight temperature

and this is China typhoon talim hit

overnight displacing thousands it comes

just days after China provisionally

recorded its highest temperature of 52.2

degrees Celsius in xinjiang the storm is

now heading for Vietnam where 30 000

people in its path have moved to safer

ground floods in South Korea have

claimed dozens of lives prompting its

leaders to rethink their response to

climate change

well the U.S climate Envoy John Kerry

has told his Chinese counterpart that

climate change poses a threat to all

humankind he made the comments during a

second day of face-to-face meetings in

Beijing Mr Kerry said solving climate

change requires a new kind of

cooperation between China and the United

States the two biggest emitters China's

top Diplomat Wang Yi said there was a

need for a healthy stable and

sustainable relationship

Joyce Lee from The BBC's Chinese service

has been following the discussions from

Hong Kong

well we haven't heard of much concrete

plants yet but uh the U.S and China has

expressed their willingness to have more

cooperations between the two countries

and um actually John Kerry's is the

latest top U.S official visiting China

following Lincoln then Yellen and it

marks the formal resumption of top level

climate diplomacy between the two sides

because there was a suspension in talks

since last August when Nancy Pelosi

visited Taiwan so this three days or

formal talks it's very symbolic for the

two countries in terms of diplomacy as

well as climate cooperation and uh John

Kerry said that the two countries should

put aside the Diplomatic differences and

have more cooperation in climb to combat

climate change the U.S is hoping that

China concrete curve is immersion

particularly from coal as well as

methane but China

accused U.S of you know not cutting its

own Greenhouse emissions and the thing

that China is still a developing country

with historical emissions that remain

significantly lower

proportionately to that of the US so

there are still disagreements but it's a

start for the two countries to cooperate

I mean in terms of carbon emissions per

capita China is lower than the US isn't

it quite significantly

yes it is that's why the two sides have

still have a lot of disagreements and we

are hoping to see more cooperations like

more concrete plans coming

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