Temperature records toppled across the country - Madrid matched its all-time hottest temperature record, at 105.3 degrees, while numerous other cities around the country broke daily and monthly records. The new system launched last year as Spain roasted under record-breaking heat. The idea is to reduce heat-related illness and death by making the public more aware of the dangers. The initiative is a collaboration between the city of Seville and the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center (Arsht-Rock), including other partners such as the Spanish Office for Climate Change and several Spanish universities and research institutes. Only the most severe heat waves - those reaching at least a high-end Category 2 or low-end Category 3 over three days - receive a name. Each category has specific criteria, including both daytime and nighttime temperatures, humidity and expected impacts on human health.Įach tier also triggers a set of emergency response services, like issuing weather alerts and public information campaigns, opening cooling centers and dispatching teams to check on vulnerable populations. The system uses a three-tiered ranking system, with Category 3 as the most severe. It officially launched a pilot program in June 2022, and heat wave Zoe became its first named event a month later. Seville is among the first cities in the world to implement a system for naming and ranking heat waves, similar to the way scientists designate hurricanes. “Yago” earned the city’s most severe heat wave ranking, a Category 3, as temperatures soared above 111 degrees Fahrenheit on Monday. CLIMATEWIRE | The city of Seville, Spain, has declared its second-ever named heat wave as much of the country swelters under blistering conditions.
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