Southern and Central Europe swelters.

As areas of northern Europe continued to endure less than attractive summer weather southern areas of Europe sizzled in the sort of temperatures (around 40 centigrade) that first gave credence to the theory of Global Warming. Particularly affected were nations such as Slovakia, Austria, parts of Italy, as well as a variety of Balkan nations including Romania and Greece for whom the summer - as reported elsewhere in this site has seen prolonged periods of very high temperatures.

So finally this just had to be Global Warming - the clear signature of man made carbon emissions that now exerted a unique stranglehold over wide areas of the southern Mediterranean and beyond. Well you may think that!! But you would be very mistaken, because once again we see quite plainly from the pic below that the reason for these high temperatures is simply a matter of wind direction. Greece for example catches a glancing blow from the winds threading their way up from the Sahara Desert in North Africa, whereas Central Europe is in the direct flow of winds flowing up from the Sahara Desert which as we all know is supremely hot, so that any wind that blows from it is bound to exhibit the same scorching properties.

So once again no mystery, and a quite obvious explanation that is apparent to anyone who really bothers to look.