After a record month of May and the earliest heat wave in history in June, the month of July offers Spaniards one of the longest heat waves since 1975.
“Fresh water!” In this small shop in downtown Madrid, the message written in large hand on a white sheet catches the eye and is a hit with tourists stunned by the scorching heat. It was 39 ° C in the shade Friday in the middle of the afternoon, in the average of the temperatures observed throughout the week in the Spanish capital. If the country is known for its sun and high summer temperatures, the Spaniards themselves are suffocating. “In the summer it is normal to have heat, but this heat is not normalsummed up the Spanish meteorological agency (Aemet) on Twitter last Saturday.
At the height of the heat episode, between Tuesday and Thursday, several cities exceeded 44 ° C. This was the case, for example, in Cordoba and Seville in Andalusia, or in Badajoz in Extremadura, on the border with Portugal, a country also hit by extreme heat. Almost everywhere in Spain, you usually have to wait at least an hour…
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