Witness: Satellite images monitor the smoke of the fires in Algeria and Tunisia, resulting from a historic heat wave that hit these areas

Weather of Arabia - Large parts of Algeria and Tunisia are affected by a severe and historic heat wave, as the wind directions and the way this extremely hot mass stays over northwest Africa led to temperatures reaching unprecedented values in some regions, especially the coastal areas in Algeria and Tunisia, which are usually spared from heat waves due to the flow of less hot winds from over the sea to land.

And the heat wave caused temperatures to rise to exceptional values, as it approached 49 degrees Celsius in the Algerian capital, which is the highest ever in the history of climate records, and it also touched 49 degrees Celsius in Tunisia and Carthage, which is approaching the highest temperature recorded in the history of its records as well.

This heat wave led to the outbreak of severe fires in eastern Algeria and northern Tunisia, in addition to southern Europe.

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