The first heatwave of the summer hit Spain, Portugal, France, Italy and Germany early in the year, breaking June temperature records in many areas. It was Western Europe’s warmest June since records began, and Spain’s warmest since it began recording temperature anomalies in 1961.
Temperatures soared past 40ºC in the last week of the month in large parts of the southern half of peninsular Spain, mainly in Andalusia and Extremadura, as well as in other more northerly places like Ourense, in Galicia, and Girona in Catalonia. The most extreme numbers recorded in the Iberian states were 46.6ºC in Mora, about 100 km east of Lisbon, and 45.8ºC in El Granado, in the Andalusian province of Huelva.
