The heatwave of 2003 (click here)
More than 20,000 people died after a record-breaking heatwave left Europe sweltering in August 2003. The period of extreme heat is thought to be the warmest for up to 500 years, and many European countries experienced their highest temperatures on record.......About 15,000 people died due to the heat in France, which led to a shortage of space to store dead bodies in mortuaries. Temporary mortuaries were set up in refrigeration lorries. There were also heat-related deaths in the UK (2,000), Portugal (2,100), Italy (3,100), Holland (1,500) and Germany (300)....
Where were the minds of Americans when this was happening?
In Iraq, that where. The illegal and immoral war. Not at home, not Afghanistan, but, Iraq. It was a rather interesting distraction from the other emergencies the USA was facing, wasn't it?
Below is the climate data at the time of the Europe drought of 2003.
The map below (click here) shows places on Earth where the average surface temperatures were either warmer (yellows and reds), cooler (blues), or the same as (white) the climatological average. The areas where temperatures were most above average were Alaska (upper right), the Antarctic Peninsula (bottom), and Central Asia (right of center), particularly the region just east of the Caspian Sea.
