Europe’s Summer of Wild, Wild Weather – washingtonpost.com
Thousands of tourists and residents were forced to flee ahead of raging wildfires that have engulfed parts of the Canary Islands since the weekend, the latest in a string of bizarre, weather-related calamities to hit Europe this summer.
The Canary fires are the latest offspring of strange weather patterns that have buffeted Europe this summer, from unusually severe floods in England to chilly, fall-like weather in Paris, to searing heat waves, drought and wildfires in Southern and Eastern Europe.
According to police, the driver of the cement truck tried to avoid crashing into stopped traffic and swerved into the median. At the same time, Kim Strandberg, the driver of the car, was making a U-Turn when he collided with the truck and the truck tipped over on top of the small car.