– It is not possible to be in the sun, then I faint, says Richard Aasum (34) to Dagbladet. He is Norwegian and lives permanently in a small town, Alhaurín de la Torre, outside the popular resort town of Málaga in Spain.
On Saturday, a regional heat record in Spain was declared by the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET), with temperatures of up to 47.4 degrees in the southern city of Cordoba, according to NTB.
That is one tenth of a degree higher than the last record, also recorded in Cordoba, in 2017.
Aasum, who lives two hours away from Cordoba, says that it was between 40 to 45 degrees on Saturday and in his swimming pool it was 33 degrees.
– It’s very hot now. Without the pool we would not have made it. We sit inside a lot. Everything goes in slow motion. You can not bear to eat so much food. You just drink water and then we rather eat a big meal late at night. I do a little farming, so it will mostly be home office now, says Aasum.
NEEDS SIESTA: – I understand more and more of the concept siesta because it is not possible to work during the day now, says Aasum. Here he is with his dog, Blanquita. Photo: private
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Aasum says that he has learned to live with the heat, but his dog, a Siberian husky, does not.
– She is not very enthusiastic, but she finds shady places and is active late at night.
– The temperature kills us
Heat wave
Spain has been in a heatwave since Wednesday. Several parts of the country, including the southern regions of Andalucia and Murcia, have had temperatures of over 45 degrees, writes NTB.
The heat continues this week, but not as extreme as last week, says climate researcher Hans Olav Hygen at the Meteorological Institute to Dagbladet.
A Spanish twitter user shared a photo of a temperature measurement in the center of Granada, in the south of Spain, on Saturday, August 14, which shows that it was exactly 50 degrees in the sun. “Amazing but true. Granada, today », writes the Twitter user.
Climate change
Heat waves and extreme droughts have caused major forest fires in several countries in southern Europe.
– What we see is that there has been a continuous series of heat waves around the Mediterranean this summer. It started with forest fires in Turkey and Greece, then it came in North Africa and Tunisia, which set a heat record and then it came to Spain, says Hans Olav Hygen.
