Some areas of Europe are set to be hit by their hottest-ever temperatures as the deadly Cerberus heatwave sweeps across the continent.
There are concerns about the impact on those working outdoors in Italy after a 44-year-old man who was painting road markings in the northern town of Lodi collapsed and died this week.
Authorities put an ambulance on standby near the archaeological site of the Acropolis in Athens, ready to provide first aid to tourists wilting in the heatwave, which Italy’s Meteorological Society named ‘Cerberus’. Land temperatures in parts of southern Spain, which measure how hot the ground is to touch, reached upwards of 60C yesterday,The all-time temperature record of 48.8C, which was set in Italy in August 2021 on the Italian islands of Sicily and Sardinia, could be broken.
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