Portugal welcoming heat waves, drought, wild fire challenges

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 8th. Portugal is expected to usher in a new round of heat waves this weekend, and the highest temperature in some areas may reach 43 degrees Celsius.Coupled with drought and other factors, the risk of wildfires faced in many places has risen sharply.

The meteorological department said that high temperature weather is expected to last at least a week. Not only will the maximum temperature in many places be as high as 40 degrees Celsius, but the temperature at night will exceed 20 degrees Celsius.

As of the end of June, 96%of Portugal's regions have encountered "extreme" or "severe" drought, that is, the two levels with the highest drought assessment system.In the past nine months, Portugal's rainfall is slightly more than half of the same period of the same period of the previous year, and it is also the second low value since the country's reliable record in 1931.

Experts said that droughts were not rare in Portugal, but the degree of drought in Portugal has increased and frequently increased in the past two or three decades.

The Portuguese Civil Defense Bureau said on the 7th that the risk of alert wildfire is high now.About one -third of Portugal is facing "extremely serious" wildfire risks.(Yang Shuyi)

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