.jpg?itok=VtVXX_iX&offsetX=74&offsetY=175&cropWidth=1597&cropHeight=898&width=2048&height=1152&impolicy=dynamic "Heat wave breaks temperature records in Spain: ‘Bizarre warm’")
“There has been a huge bubble of warm air over Spain in recent days,” he says. “As a result, it is much warmer in many places than normal at this time of year. In Seville, for example, it was 41 degrees. The old heat record of 39 degrees has been broken, or actually crushed.”
Place nights
The whole month of May it is already very hot in Spain, says De Wit. “It has also been extremely hot in North Africa recently, and that warm air has now come to Spain,” he says.
Since Friday it has become almost unbearable in some Spanish areas. “Even at night it hardly cools down. In many places it remains around 25 degrees. It’s no fun having to sleep with those temperatures.”
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It is also warm in the south of France, but the heat does not move much further north. “It will also be quite warm in the Netherlands tomorrow, but that has little to do with the heat in Spain. We are a bit further from the current.”
New heat wave on the way
Spain must continue to take extreme heat into account in the coming period. “Tomorrow it will be very warm again, but from Tuesday there will be a current from the north and the weather will cool down a bit. In most places it will be about 24 degrees.”
But that cooling is short-lived. “From Thursday, the Spaniards can wet their chests for the next heat wave. Also next weekend the temperatures will be about 5 to 10 degrees higher than normal in May.”
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Global warming
The fact that it gets so extremely hot in Spain is partly due to global warming, says De Wit. “The intensity of heat waves is attributable to climate change. Recent research has shown that the likelihood of a record-breaking heat wave since the Industrial Revolution is 100 times greater.”
It has also been extremely hot in other places this year. One heat record after another was broken in India at the beginning of this month. It has been extremely hot for weeks, with temperatures even reaching 50 degrees. That’s going to happen more and more, experts say in this video:
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