(19 Jun 2024)
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Bucharest – 18 June 2024
1. Various of people around fountains in central Bucharest park, children playing with water
2. Zoom in to people fanning themselves by fountain
3. Close of nozzles spraying water
4. Various of people near fountains
5. Various of woman laying in grass by lake
6. Various of couple riding bikes while holding hands
7. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) Andrei Toma, 35, Bucharest resident:
‘’We go out after 6 p.m. because earlier is too hot. We come to the park in comfortable clothing, generally cotton, we bring water, we stay near the green grass of the park and then at home we turn on the air conditioning in the evening to fight the tropical night because that’s a real problem, the nighttime temperatures."
8. Man walking dog
9. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) Bogdan (last name not given), resident:
‘’It is indeed a bit harder for him (Sami the dog) in the summer but his fur coat also protects him, both in the winter and in the summer. It’s like a thermal isolator, actually the long fur protects him from the sun because he has red skin and mustn’t be exposed to sun. And it is what it is, he gets by."
10. Bogdan walking away with Sami
11. Various of park during sunset, people in kayaks and paddle boards on lake
12. Wide of sunset
13. Couple by lake at sunset
14. Plane approaching Bucharest airport as sun sets
STORYLINE:
Residents in the Romanian capital of Bucharest braced for the beginning of a heat wave on Tuesday evening, as meteorologists forecast that temperatures could reach close to 40 C (104 F) in the southern part of the country on Wednesday.
Bucharest residents were spotted cooling down at a local lake and park fountains to combat the tropical heat.
’We go out after 6 p.m. because earlier is too hot,’’ said Andrei Toma, holding a bottle of water during a walk by a lake in central Bucharest.
"We come to the park in comfortable clothing, generally cotton, we bring water, we stay near the green grass of the park and then at home we turn on the air conditioning in the evening to fight the tropical night because that’s a real problem, the nighttime temperatures," he added.
The European Union’s climate-watching agency Copernicus declared last month that it was the hottest May on record globally, marking the 12th straight monthly record high.
Separately, the World Meteorological Organization estimated that there’s almost a one-in-two chance that average global temperatures from 2024 to 2028 will surpass the hoped-for warming limit of 1.5 C (2.7 F) since pre-industrial times that was agreed in the Paris talks.
AP video shot by Nicolae Dumitrache
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