Zoe, the world's first named heat wave, arrives in Seville 📝: ciaraCnugent
eville, a city of 700,000 in southern Spain, is already facing its fourth major heat wave of the summer, part of a record-breaking season of high temperatures across Europe. But this one’s a little different.
Seville’s current heat wave is the first in the world to get an official name: Zoe. Last month, the city governmenta new heat wave categorization system, designed to monitor not just high temperatures but also how they interact with other factors, such as humidity and time of day, to worsen potential health impacts.
The system sorts heat events into three tiers, with each one triggering certain measures in the city’s emergency and disaster response plans, including the deployment of community health workers to check on vulnerable people, or lengthening the opening hours for city pools. The highest tier will also get names, like hurricanes do in the U.S., in a bid to boost public awareness.
Heat wave Zoe will cause daytime highs above 43°C . It is expected to last until Tuesday, July 26. Heatwaves Yago, Xenia, Wenceslao, and Vega, could follow in its footsteps later this summer. There is no single scientific definition of a heat wave; countries with different climates use the term to describe periods of temperatures that are higher than local averages. Summer of 2022 has seen an
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