Spain had its hottest April day on record with the temperature at 38.7C in Cordoba today.
Meteorologists are expecting temperatures of almost 40 degrees Celsius in some areas of Spain this week.
Spain’s state weather agency AEMET said this is likely to be the Iberian Peninsula’s hottest April on record, reports Independent.
One horse died and a second collapsed while pulling passenger carriages through Seville during the southern Spanish city’s worst heatwave on record, video footage showed, prompting an investigation into animal abuse.
Residents of a small town in southern Spain gathered in the main square to collect drinking water, while much of the Iberian Peninsula grappled with unusually warm weather that worsened a long drought, reports Independent.
According to the regional government of Andalusia, about 80,000 people living in Alcaracejos and 27 other villages in the province of Cordoba are dependent on the delivery of drinking water trucks because the drought has depleted the nearby reservoir and the water was thought to be from a dam other undrinkable.
“I have never experienced this before,” local resident Mari Carmen told Reuters after filling her bottles. She recalled times when they only had running water a few times a day but never had to carry the bottles home.
Authorities have announced that three communities in Portugal’s southern Algarve region are at maximum risk of wildfire.
“We are being supplied with water through a cistern. It’s a rather uncomfortable situation and, above all, precarious for the times in which we live,” Alcaracejos Mayor Jose Luis Cabrera said, reports Independent.
Meanwhile, authorities in France will have forest firefighting troops and their water transport planes ready on June 1, a month earlier than usual, to adapt to fires starting earlier than in the past as due to climate change.
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