Скачать или смотреть Residents of Pristina brace for extreme heat

(17 Jul 2023)
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Pristina, Kosovo - 17 July 2023
1. Low shot, heat on the asphalt road
2. Heat coming out of the concrete
3. Empty tables and chairs
4. People sitting on benches in shade
5. Woman passing by fountain, empty square
6. People passing by fountain
7. Little girl running through fountain
8. Close of water from fountain
9. Girl in the fountain running
10. Wide of empty park
11. Children on swings
12. Close of fountain, waiter collecting cups off a table
13. Wide of fountain, man putting his hand in it
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Artan Kelani, student:
"I am 22 years old but never in my life I experience this kind of heating before in Pristina. Even though this is a mountain (park located on the hill) and people come because it's usually more windy and more cold, but now people are not coming during the daytime, but only in the night, only after 8 o'clock or 9 o'clock, because at that time it's more relaxing for them."
10. Close of water from the fountain

STORYLINE:
Kosovo's weather office issued a red warning for extreme heat on Monday as the peak of this month's heatwave hits the Balkan country.

Temperatures are expected to reach 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit).

Streets of capital Pristina are nearly empty.

The few people roaming the streets look for refreshments around the city's fountains.

Artan Kelani, a 22-year-old student, said "never in my life I experience this kind of heating before in Pristina."

He told the Associated Press "now people are not coming during the daytime, only in the night, only after 8 o'clock or 9 o'clock, because at that time it's more relaxing for them."

Warm air from Africa arrived in the Balkans several days ago bringing extreme heat and humidity across Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia, Montenegro.

Meteo office repeated calls for chronic disease patients and elderly to stay indoors during peak hours of the sun, between 1200 (1000 GMT) and 1600 (1400 GMT).

Scorching temperatures are expected to peak this Wednesday, when it is expected to be over 42 degrees in Kosovo.

With heat records being shattered all over the world, scientists say there is a chance that 2023 will go down as the hottest year since the records stared in the mid -19th century.

At the same time, many parts of the globe are seeing heavy rains and are hit by floods.

High temperatures are being driven by long term human-caused climate change from the burning of coal, oil and gas and a naturally occurring weather pattern, El Nino.

El Nino is a temporary and occasional warming of part of the Pacific that shifts weather patterns across the globe, often by moving the airborne paths for storms.

It adds more heat to the already rising temperatures.

Scientists say that most of the record warming the Earth is now seeing is from human-caused climate change, partly because El Nino only started a few months ago and is still weak to moderate.

It isn’t expected to peak until winter, so the prediction is the next year will be even hotter than 2023.

AP video shot by Sylejman Kllokoqi

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