Southern Europe braces for second heatwave in a week

Smoke caused by the flames of the La Palma fire, on 16 July, 2023 in Puntagorda, La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain. Picture: Europa Press via Getty Images)

Southern Europe is bracing for a second heat storm in a week, with Italy, Greece and Spain, along with Morocco and other Mediterranean countries, being told temperature records could be broken on Tuesday.

A new anticyclone that pushed into the region from north Africa on Sunday could lift temperatures above the record 48.8C seen in Sicily in August 2021, and follows last week’s Cerberus heatwave.