Southeastern Europe has been slammed by a seasonally early heatwave coupled with rampant power outages. Both are leaving Balkan countries at a standstill.
A major hours-long power outage hit much of the Balkans on Friday as the southern European region sweltered in an early heatwave that sent temperatures soaring to more than 40C.
Montenegrin authorities said that an outage that lasted for several hours in the country’s power distribution system left almost the entire nation without electricity. Similar problems were reported in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania and the coastal part of Croatia.
Nada Pavićević, a spokeswoman for Montenegro’s state power distribution company, described the outage as a “disturbance of regional proportion” and said authorities were still working to determine what happened.
The exact cause of the outage was not immediately clear.
The regional power grid has been overloaded for…
