Unseasonal Heat Wave Sweeps Across Spain

Temperatures soar to summer-like highs, drawing crowds to beaches and raising concerns about climate change.

Spain is experiencing abnormally high temperatures for the season, with many parts of the country set to continue seeing this trend over the weekend.
The high temperatures affecting southern Europe are due to an anticyclone carrying a hot air mass from further south, and a lack of cloud cover.
Many cities have reached the highest temperatures for this time of the year for more than 20 years, with temperatures averaging 5-10 degrees Celsius (9-18 degrees Fahrenheit) above normal.
The warm weather has led to busy beaches from southwestern Cádiz to northeastern Barcelona, scenes normally associated with summer months.
While it's not possible to directly attribute the current high temperatures to the climate crisis without studies, they follow a trend of increasingly more frequent periods of unusually high temperatures that experts are associating with climate change.