Madrid (AP) – Spain said on Tuesday that this summer was the hottest for the South European nation that, like the entire Mediterranean region, is hit hard by climate change.
According to Spain’s National Weather Service, the country had an average temperature of 24.2 ° C (75.5 f) between June 1 and August 31. This is the highest temperature since the service started with the records in 1961. The previous record was 24.1 C from the summer of 2022.
This summer was also 2.1 degrees Celsius (3.7 f) hotter than the national average from 1991 to 2020.
The highest one -day temperature of 45.8 ° C (119.3 f) was recorded on August 17 during a heat wave in Jerez de la Frontera in southern Spain.
According to the United Nations, the Mediterranean region heats 20% faster than the global average.
The landscape in Spain was burning in the scorching summer months.
A record of 382,000 hectares (944,000 acres) burned in a flood of forest fires and exceeded the previous high of 306,000 hectares (756,000 acres), which were burned in 2022, in accordance with the data compiled by the European Waldbrand Information System of the European Union.
Spain’s weather service added that the country also had a particularly dry summer, especially in the areas of the northwest, in which forest fires caused most of their damage.