It’s been a long hot summer, not so much because high temperatures have been reached, but because they have been just so prolonged.

Take July, the hottest one on Spanish records with an average temperature of 26.5C, which easily beats the previous record holder 2003 according to the Agencia Estatal de Meteorología (AEMET).

As the meteorological agency pointed out, there was just one long heatwave, rather than a series of them.

Day and night temperatures; i.e., daily maximums and minimums, have exceeded the previous record by 2.8C – that doesn’t sound much, but try telling that to people who couldn’t sleep because of the heat.

The heatwave began on the 26th of June and it wasn’t until just after the 15th of August that it let up a little with the hottest days being on the 6th and 7th of July where temperatures reached 45C in Western Andalucia and inland Valencia.

Now, Ladies and Gentelmen, pray for rain!

(News: Andalucia)