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More than 100 active wildfires in western Canada that continue to grow have led to new evacuation orders, AFP reported.

About 30,000 people have been asked to leave their homes in Alberta, where more than two dozen fires are still burning.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith called the situation "unprecedented" and declared a state of emergency on Saturday.

Today before noon it will still be sunny, but around and after noon over Western and Central Bulgaria, and in the evening and overnight against Tuesday and over Eastern Bulgaria, cumulus and cumulus-rain clouds will develop and there will be short-term precipitation accompanied by thunder. Hail is also possible.

Authorities on Friday presented a plan for the restoration and recovery of forest areas on Mount Penteli that were devastated by a wildfire in July 2022. The plan was unveiled by Deputy Minister of Environment George Amyras and Mayor of Penteli Dimitra Kechagia at the local municipality.

The minimum temperatures today will be between 7°C and 12°C, in Sofia - around 8°C, and the maximum - between 17°C and 22°C, in Sofia - around 18°C.

Cloudy weather will prevail today. In many places there will be rain showers, accompanied by thunder, and in Southwest Bulgaria they will be intense and significant in quantity. There will also be conditions for hail. A light to moderate wind will blow from the east-southeast. The minimum temperatures will be between 5°C and 10°C, the maximum - between 17°C and 22°C.

The Agriculture and Forestry Ministry is planning to use a new "sponge city" concept that absorbs rain waters within the scope of water efficiency measures on a national scale.

Within this scope, ecological infrastructure and drainage systems will be created in cities, and roadsides or sidewalks will be covered with surface coatings that allow water to pass through.

Weather events and patterns in the Mediterranean indicate that the region, including Greece, will experience a summer as hot if not hotter than the last, which brought successive heatwaves and raised the climate change alarm. 

Environmental campaigners urged climate envoys from dozens of nations gathering Tuesday in Berlin to discuss a global deadline for phasing out fossil fuels and ways of increasing aid to poor countries hit by global warming.

The world's oceans have suddenly spiked much hotter and well above record levels in the last few weeks, with scientists trying to figure out what it means and whether it forecasts a surge in atmospheric warming.

The weather in Bulgaria will be sunny, with more clouds in the afternoon, but with a small chance of rain. The wind will be weak, in Eastern Bulgaria and along the Black Sea - moderate from the north. Today the maximum temperatures will be between 13°C and 18°C.