Spain smashes temperature record as heat scorches Andalucia

UNPRECEDENTED temperatures are cooking southern, central and eastern Spain while a heat wave sweeps the country.

Bearing the brunt of it is a municipality in the Cordoba province, Montoro, where highs reached a record-breaking 47.3C.

AEMET has said temperatures will cool slightly today, but that the heatwave will continue until at least Sunday.

Tags:

7 Jan, 2025 @ 14:00

Nearly 8% of all homes in Spain are in danger of flooding under new risk evaluation caused by the deadly Valencia DANA

New Year drought relief with reservoirs in Spain 5% fuller than a year ago boosted by autumn downpours

3 Jan, 2025 @ 08:00

Reservoirs in Spain are 5% fuller than a year ago following autumn downpours

28 Dec, 2024 @ 16:00

Outcry over otter threat in Spain: ‘False’ €2.5m Marbella river project will ‘pave 469m of footpaths and benches over one of the last biodiversity reserves on the Costa del Sol’

Laura Duckett

Latest from Environment

Nearly 8% of all homes in Spain are in danger of flooding under new risk evaluation caused by the deadly Valencia DANA

MORE than two million homes across Spain are now considered at risk of flooding, more than double the previous estimate – or approximately 8% of

Reservoirs in Spain are 5% fuller than a year ago following autumn downpours

SPAIN’S reservoirs taken as a national average are 5% fuller than a year ago according to figures released on Thursday by Environment Ministry. They’ve accumulated

Outcry over otter threat in Spain: ‘False’ €2.5m Marbella river project will ‘pave 469m of footpaths and benches over one of the last biodiversity reserves on the Costa del Sol’

NEW plans to ‘urbanise’ a picturesque river on the Costa del Sol have been slammed by ecologist groups as a ‘potential environmental crime.’ Marbella town

Valencia records FOUR earthquakes in 90 minutes: Special protocol is enacted after residents ‘feel tremors’

FOUR earthquakes rattled the Spanish region of Valencia today, it has emerged. During just 90 minutes, at least four quakes rattled the area of Ribera

‘The environment has no borders’: Spanish activist group insists it is not ‘anti-Gibraltar’ in Eastside marina complaints

THE main Spanish group leading the charge against the Eastside development has denied it is ‘just another hostile anti-Gibraltar voice from Spain’. Environmentalists Verdemar Ecologistas