Spain is heading towards its hottest early summer temperatures in decades.
ZARAGOZA, Spain – Firefighters battled to bring raging wildfires under control in Spain on Saturday, June 18, and people sought relief with fans, shade, and plenty of water as an unseasonable heatwave pushed temperatures close to record highs.
Many areas of Western Europe have been sweltering under unseasonably hot temperatures over the past few days, compoundingIn Zaragoza, forecast to sizzle under Spain’s highest temperature of 42 degrees Celsius on Saturday, people at a farmers market waved fans and newspapers, stood in the shade, and kept hydrated. By 4 pm the temperature had reached 40.9 degrees Celsius.
Almost 20,000 hectares of land had been burned in the Sierra de la Culebra mountain range and the fire was “still active”, said a tweet from the regional government of Castile and Leon, where Zamora is located.In Catalonia, firefighters who were trying to bring a fire under control in Baldomar said they expected Saturday to be “complicated” by “very high temperatures and a strong southerly wind”.
Firefighters, wearing masks, goggles, and helmets, struggled to bring the flames under control. They helped evacuate residents, some of whom dragged along their pet dogs and horses, as smoke wafted through the village.“This is evidence of climate change,” Bernardo Funes, 63, a stallholder and organic farmer in Zaragoza, told Reuters. “It’s very worrying because… we’ve already had highs of 34, 35 degrees in May and now in June, it’s something like 44 degrees.
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