Spain weather maps turn white hot as heatwave hits 46C – 50C feared | Weather | News

New weather maps reveal fears Spain could be grappling with brutal temperatures and the mercury could reach a deadly 50C. Forecast data from WXCharts shows the Iberian Peninsula turning white as of noon on Friday, July 24, with the southern province of Andalusia in the firing line for the hottest temperatures.

Popular tourist cities such as Malaga, Seville and Grenada are expected to see temperatures of 40 degrees and above in a few days. Spain was rocked by devastating bushfires that ripped through the Spanish province of Almería on Thursday, killing 13 people, including seven British citizens.

Deadly summer conditions look likely to continue and Spanish climate experts fear record-breaking temperatures will burn the country. The highest reading so far for Spain is 47.6C recorded in Barcelona’s La Rambla on 14 August 2021.

Rubén del Campo of Spain’s national weather agency Agencia Estatal de Meteorología AEMET told El Pais newspaper: “Given that the frequency and intensity of heat waves are increasing, it is not improbable that a temperature of 50 degrees will occur during the peak of intense heat in the coming years or decades.”

The world record for the highest temperature ever recorded is 56.7°C measured in California’s Death Valley on July 10, 1913.

In Britain, the Met Office said 2026 was the first year in which 35 degrees were recorded on six separate days.

This broke previous records set in 1976 and 2020, when five days with temperatures above 35 degrees were recorded.

In Spain, four days after a fire broke out in a remote immigrant community in the country’s south, judicial authorities identified 12 of the 13 deaths using biological samples.

Most of the dead were foreign nationals, including seven Britons, three Belgians and one woman, and all were adults.

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