Spain swelters as temperatures reach 110 degrees in second heatwave
By Michael Francis Gore and Catherine MacDonald
MADRID (Reuters) – Spaniards saved to the shade in parks, headed for the seaside or sipped iced drinks to deal with stifling temperatures as excessive as 43C (110F), because the nation experiences its second heatwave this yr.
Heat summer time sunshine mixed with a sizzling air entrance from North Africa have despatched temperatures hovering, state meteorological forecasters AEMET stated on Sunday, and the heatwave may final till July 14.
The best recorded temperature on Sunday was 43C (110F) by the Guadalquivir river close to Seville in southern Spain and in Badajoz, in the direction of the west of the nation, forecasters stated.
For Rasha, 45, a Syrian well being govt who lives in Abu Dhabi, the heatwave was an unwelcome shock on vacation.
“It is not as fulfilling as we want it to be on a vacation however it’s what it’s. However in comparison with the desert it isn’t that dangerous,” she instructed Reuters.
Lazaro Cun, 37, a builder from Guatemala, stayed within the shade in Madrid’s Casa de Campo Park to flee the warmth.
“It’s sizzling however at the very least with a breeze you are feeling higher,” he stated.
AEMET spokesman Ruben del Campo instructed Reuters that temperatures may contact 44C in Corboda or Extremadura in southern Spain.
“They may additionally attain 42C in components of (central Spain) like Castille and Leon and Galicia (in central and western Spain) on Tuesday and Wednesday.”
Del Campo stated there was additionally a excessive danger of forest fires throughout the heatwave.
In La Rioja, northern Spain, 90 firefighters have been battling to deliver a blaze beneath management which began on Saturday evening, regional authorities stated on Sunday.
In El Ronquillo, close to Seville, about 100 individuals needed to be evacuated after a hearth closed in on their properties, the Andalusian regional authorities stated.
In June, Spaniards weathered the earliest heatwave since 1981, in keeping with AEMET, with temperatures surpassing 40F in components of central and southern Spain.
(Reporting by Graham Keeley, Jon Nazca, Susana Vera, Michael Francis Gore and Catherine Macdonald; Modifying by Hugh Lawson and David Evans)
