{"id":17445,"date":"2025-08-25T03:04:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T03:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17445"},"modified":"2025-08-25T03:04:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T03:04:01","slug":"spain-heatwave-was-most-intense-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17445","title":{"rendered":"Spain heatwave was &#8216;most intense on record&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A 16-day heatwave Spain suffered this month was &#8220;the most intense on record&#8221;, the national meteorological agency said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>With forest fires still burning across northern and western Spain, the AEMET meteorological agency said provisional readings for the August 3-18 heatwave exceeded the last record, set in July 2022, and showed an average temperature 4.6C higher than previous events.<\/p>\n<p>AEMET said a 10-day period from August 8 to August 17, was the hottest 10 consecutive days recorded in Spain since &#8220;at least 1950&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The August heatwave exacerbated tinderbox conditions that have fuelled wildfires which have killed four people and forced thousands out of their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Four people have also died in fires in Portugal, where emergency services are still struggling to control the blazes.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,100 deaths in Spain have been linked to the August heatwave, according to an estimate released Tuesday by the Carlos III Health Institute.<\/p>\n<p>The institute had already said that 1,060 deaths in July could be attributed to excess heat, a 50 percent rise on the figure for July 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Since it began keeping records in 1975, AEMET has registered 77 heatwaves in Spain, with six going 4C or more above the average. Five of those have been since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists say climate change is driving longer, more intense and more frequent heatwaves worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said that it is &#8220;a scientific fact that current summers are hotter than in previous decades&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Each 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,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>Fires burning in northern regions have destroyed more than 350,000 hectares (865,000 acres) in the past weeks and a record of more than 400,000 hectares since the start of the year.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 16-day heatwave Spain suffered this month was &#8220;the most intense on record&#8221;, the national meteorological agency said on Sunday. With forest fires still burning across northern and western Spain, the AEMET meteorological agency said provisional readings for the August 3-18 heatwave exceeded the last record, set in July 2022, and showed an average temperature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}