{"id":369651,"date":"2025-08-24T11:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T11:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/369651\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T11:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T11:51:10","slug":"heatwave-that-fuelled-deadly-wildfires-was-spains-most-intense-on-record-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/369651\/","title":{"rendered":"Heatwave that fuelled deadly wildfires was Spain\u2019s \u2018most intense on record\u2019 | Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A 16-day heatwave <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/spain\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spain<\/a> suffered this month was \u201cthe most intense on record\u201d, the country\u2019s state meteorological agency (AEMET) has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Provisional readings for the 3-18 August heatwave exceeded the last record, set in July 2022, and showed an average temperature 4.6C higher than for previous such phenomena, the agency said on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The August heatwave exacerbated tinderbox conditions in Spain that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/16\/pauls-spain-wildfires-climate-change\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fuelled wildfires<\/a> that continue to ravage parts of the north and west of the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">More than 1,100 deaths in Spain have been linked to the heatwave, according to an estimate released on Tuesday by the Carlos III Health Institute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Since it began its records in 1975, AEMET has registered 77 heatwaves in Spain, with six going 4C or more above the average \u2013 five of those since 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Scientists say the climate crisis is driving longer, more intense and more frequent heatwaves worldwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">AEMET said a 10-day period within the last heatwave, covering 8-17 August, was the hottest 10 consecutive days recorded in Spain since at least 1950.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The agency said it was \u201ca scientific fact that current summers are hotter than in previous decades\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">It added: \u201cEach summer is not always going to be hotter than the previous one, but there is a clear trend towards much more extreme summers. What is key is adapting to, and mitigating, climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 16-day heatwave Spain suffered this month was \u201cthe most intense on record\u201d, the country\u2019s state meteorological agency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-369651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115083600735541070","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}