In Spain, they expected to break the temperature record from July 2017 on Saturday, when they measured 47.3 degrees Celsius in Montor in southern Andalusia, Spain. On Saturday in the same city, the temperature rose to 47.2 degrees at five o’clock in the afternoon.
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They measured over 40 degrees on Saturday in Spain and in the northeast, in Catalonia, where the mercury of the thermometer climbed to 43 degrees.
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In Madrid, they recorded 40 degrees Celsius, the highest since 2019. The record fell in the village of Navacerrada north of Madrid, which lies at an altitude of 1900 meters and from where they reported 31.2 degrees.
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The heat wave is sweeping the south of Europe all week, and due to the drought in many countries, there is a risk of further fires. Near Rome, firefighters have not yet been able to control the fire north of Tivoli, so they deployed a plane and two helicopters.
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In Greece, the critical situation has slightly improved, with the largest fires on the island of Euboea and the Peloponnese, which have destroyed over 100,000 hectares of vegetation and three hundred houses, already under control.
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From Friday to Saturday morning, however, firefighters intervened in more than fifty new smaller outbreaks.
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