(BI) – The intense heat wave blasting Europe with record-breaking temperatures manifested on a recent weather forecast as a screaming heat skull of death looming over France. A forecast map for Thursday, first created June 20, showed France’s scorching temperatures creating a giant, screaming face over the country as the country braced itself for the hottest temperatures since a 2003 heat wave killed 15,000 people in the country.
A French meteorologist named Ruben Hallali first spotted the map, and he shared it on Twitter alongside Edvard Munch’s painting “The Scream.” He said he had never seen anything like the image in 15 years of looking at maps of heat waves. The map was published by the French website Météociel, which uses different forecasts to generate visualizations of the weather. A Météociel spokesman told CNN that the map was generated from the US Global Forecast System and that its distinctive form happened by chance. READ MORE
