Transcript for Heat wave across Europe

I'm Clark Benson in Rome Italy at the coliseum where temperatures arts. Scorching today it's about 95 degrees but with the humidity it feels even hotter and backed up and down the Italian peninsula today. Are extremely warm temperatures authorities issuing alerts and eighteen cities. Where temperatures are above normal vacancies behind of the tourists are still out there's lots a water cellars. In the area there's some shade to be had and of course people are waiting to lock so. To try to escape from the heat but they're still out enjoying this that Italy despite these warm warm temperatures. Both residents of course have fled to the beach which is the normal activity. Here in these hot warm more weeks of August that the highest temperature ever recorded on here being conned him 118 degrees and Athens. There is are concerned that that record could be broken this weekend in Spain airport there have been some deadly fires increases in the past few weeks. Last year the Iberian peninsula experience and very deadly fires. So authorities have put firefighters on alert across the Iberian peninsula here in Italy as far across the Mediterranean as. Turkey because of these warm warm temperatures. So authorities began asking everyone to date to take extreme caution in this heat drink off the water take some shade and hopefully they'll be relief in the coming days. I'm Clark Benson ABC news Rome Italy.

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