France
has hit its highest ever recorded temperature - 44.3C (111.7F) - amid a
heatwave in Europe which is thought to have claimed lives. The new record was
measured in the southern town of Carpentras. The previous record was 44.1C
during a heatwave in 2003 that killed thousands. Schools have been shut and
officials are checking on vulnerable people, Mayor Étienne Baudu said.The
weather service said the new record - measured at 13:48 local time (11:48 GMT)
- remained provisional as temperatures could climb higher still. Swathes of the
continent are experiencing extreme heat. Germany, France, Poland and the Czech
Republic have all recorded their highest-ever June temperatures. June 28 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48795264
Meteorological astrology or astrometeorology (from Greek
astron, "constellation, star"; metéōros, "high in the sky";
and -logia) is the practice of applying
the astrological/astronomical placements of the Sun, Moon, and planets to attempt
to forecast the weather. Astrometeorology is the oldest type of Hellenistic
astrology.
Among the astronomical phenomena considered important by the
ancients were eclipses. These were
especially significant if they occurred on the horizon or meridian. The upcoming total solar eclipse of July 2 (already active) occurs on the horizon at
various places in Europe e.g. France, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic.
The eclipse is conjunct alpha (α) Canis Major, Sirius, a
brilliant white and yellow star in the Greater dog. It is the brightest star in
the night sky. That this star was linked to “heat waves” was well known to
ancient astrologers.
"The brilliant
constellation of the Dog: it barks forth flame, raves with its fire, and doubles the burning heat of
the Sun. When it put its torch to the earth and discharges its rays, the earth
foresees its conflagration and tastes its ultimate fate [translator's
note: the ecpyrosis of the Stoics, who held that the Universe would ultimately
be engulfed in conflagration and all things would return to the condition of
primeval fire]. Neptune lies motionless in the midst of his waters and the
green blood is drained from leaves and grass. All living things seek alien climes and the world looks
for another world to repair to; beset by temperatures too great to bear, nature
is afflicted with a sickness of its own making, alive, but on a funeral-pyre:
such is the heat diffused among the constellations, and everything is brought
to a halt by a single star. When the Dogstar rises over the rim of the
sea, which at its birth not even the flood of Ocean can quench, it will fashion
unbridled spirits and impetuous hearts; it will bestow on its sons billows of
anger, and draw upon them the hatred and fear of the whole populace. ."
[Manilius, Astronomica, 1st century AD, book 5, p.316-319].
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