Such a temperature occurs only in July. In Morocco, local records were broken with temperatures rising above 41C in some places, while in Algeria, they exceeded 40C.
National weather agency AEMET said Spain this year recorded its driest and warmest April since at least 1961, when such records began.
The WWA report found, “Human-caused climate change has made a record-breaking heat wave in Spain, Portugal, Morocco and Algeria at least 100 times more likely to occur and that without climate change the heat would have been nearly impossible.”
This caused “temperatures to become 3.5 °C warmer than they would have been without climate change”, provoking an event he described as “rare”.