It is unusually hot in southern Europe and Spain, reports the Meteorological Institute. Temperatures are reminiscent of the heatwaves that devastated this summer.
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They write that on Tuesday a new station record was set in Granada in Spain with 35.1 degrees.
– Such heat waves are a trend and global warming means there will be more of them, says climate researcher Rasmus Benestad.
In Loja, in southern Spain, it was 35.8 degrees yesterday. It is not only in Europe that it is hot:
– There is also a record October heatwave in the northwestern United States, says Benestad.
The heat wave is due to this extreme heat in June and that the Mediterranean was warmer than normal.
BBC Weather reports on Twitter that October 18 hit a record heat in parts of Spain.
In Granada, where the Meteorological Institute reported a station record of 35.1 degrees, the BBC reports that October 18 was 35.3 degrees.
– Much of Western Europe will remain warmer than usual in October, writes the BBC.
The EU’s Directorate-General for Climate writes on Twitter that 2022 was the hottest summer ever in Europe, thus surpassing the previous record year: 2021.
It wasn’t just in June that the thermometer tilted 40 degrees in Spain. At Christmas, 43 degrees were measured near Seville.
The hot summer caused severe forest fires then also in most of Europe in Spain.
But the bushfire problems didn’t last into the summer months. In September, several hundred were evacuated as a result forest fire in the province of Malaga.
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