June was Europe’s hottest on record
Students earn scholarships
Arizona Western College recently held their annual Student Showcase event, awarding a total of $5,000 in scholarships to 11 students. The top scholarship winners are shown in the photo at right (from left): Alexander Trevino, Stephanie Franco, Joseph Saul and Lily McNair.
Iliana Maria Hebda
Iliana Maria Hebda, of Yuma, has been named to the president’s list at Clemson University in Clemson, S.C.
Hebda, whose major is psychology, made the president’s list for the spring 2019 semester. To qualify for the president’s list, a student must achieve a 4.0 grade-point average.
Jacob Rillamas
Jacob Rillamas, of Yuma, has been named to the spring 2019 dean’s list at Rockford University in Rockford, Ill.
Students attending Rockford University who earn at least a 3.5 grade-point average with no grades below “C” and having completed all requirements for the semester are named to the dean’s list.
Natalie Burnau
Natalie Burnau, of Yuma, has graduated from Azusa Pacific University with a bachelor of arts during the spring commencement ceremonies.
BELGRADE, Serbia — As Europe’s heat wave shifted eastward Tuesday, delivering scorching temperatures to Serbia and the rest of the Balkans, new data showed that last month set a new June record for the continent.
Measurements collected by the European Union’s Copernicus satellite program revealed Europe’s average temperature in June was more than 2 degrees Celsius higher than during the 30-year reference period from 1981 to 2010.
The intense heat toward the end of June also beat the previous Europe-wide record for the month set in 1999 by 1 degree Celsius. France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic and Spain all registered new national highs for June, with the southern French town of Gallargues-le-Montueux recording a blistering 45.9 Celsius (114.6 Fahrenheit) on Friday.
In a separate study published Tuesday, an international group of experts who examine the possible link between extreme weather events and climate change warned that Europe faces more frequent and intense heat waves.
After analyzing temperatures in the French city of Toulouse between June 26 and 28 the World Weather Attribution group concluded that every heat wave occurring in Europe today “is made more likely and more intense by human-induced climate change.”
They found the extreme conditions measured during that three-day period, when a blast of hot air swept up from the Sahara Desert, are at least five times more likely now than they were around 1900.