A smoke is seen above Monchique, Portugal August 3, 2018. Picture taken August 3, 2018, in this picture obtained from social media. Facebook/Bruno Alves/via REUTERS
LISBON (Reuters) - Temperatures in Portugal, at the crest of a European heatwave, began to ease from near record levels on Sunday, but a forest fire raged for a third day in the south, battled by 800 firefighters and 12 aircraft.
The heatwave has brought drought and wildfires to Europe from Greece, where 91 people died in a fire in July, to Sweden. In parts of Portugal temperatures climbed to nearly 47 degrees Celsius on Thursday and Saturday, just off the country's record of 47.3C and Europe's high of 48C set in Athens in 1977.
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