Spain and Portugal weather maps turn volcanic red – 45C heatwave | Weather | News
Spain and Portugal are set to be hit by huge temperatures next week, with one region expected to reach 45C, weather maps have suggested. It comes as Brits flock to the Iberian Peninsula for summer holidays during the peak season in July and August. The south west of Spain and the south, centre and west of Portugal are set to be worst affected as the mercury soars. The area around Cordoba is to be the hottest on July 30, according to WXCharts.
Seville and Toledo are also predicted to be scorching. In Portugal, Coimbra, Aveiro, Porto and Braga will be very warm, experts suggest. According to AccuWeather, people should expect temperatures of 38 or 39C in Spain between July 24 and 27. It comes after many cities across Europe experienced a heatwave late last month and at the beginning of July. A new high of 46.6°C was recorded in Lisbon, while the reading reached 34.7°C in London.
Imperial College London (ICL) reported that, in London, is was estimated that the heat seen between June 23 and July 2 will have resulted in around 260 excess heat-related deaths.
Of these, academics added, around 170 (65%) can be “attributed to climate change”, meaning that the death toll was “tripled due to climate change”.
ICL added: “The study also examined the impact of the heatwave as well as the role of climate change across eleven other European cities and found similar results.
“In Madrid over 90% of the expected excess deaths were estimated to be linked to climate change.”
“Climate change has made it significantly hotter than it would have been, which in turn makes it a lot more dangerous,” said Dr Ben Clarke, an ICL researcher.
Spain’s environment ministry said high temperatures have caused 1,180 deaths in the past two months, Al Jazeera reported.
This represented a stark increase when compared to the same period in 2024.
This year’s was the third-hottest June on record, the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, behind the same month in 2024 and 2023.
“In a warming world, heatwaves are likely to become more frequent, more intense and impact more people across Europe,” said Samantha Burgess, Copernicus’ strategic lead for climate, according to Reuters.
