Heatwave coming

Catherine McGeer

TEMPERATURES are to reach summer highs this week with some areas reaching 45 de‐grees. This intense heatwave will affect most of Spain but Murcia and Extremadura are the two regions that will re‐ceive the highest tempera‐tures. According to AEMET who have given weather warnings regarding this heat these temperatures are to last all week gradually increasing throughout.

Meteorologists explain that although this is unusual weather for this time of year it

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has happened before with temperatures soaring during a heatwave in April of 2011.

Murcia City and Caravaca de la Cruz will be the two areas to feel the highest temperatures but the entire region will en‐dure this heatwave with an av‐erage temperature increase of between three and six degrees throughout the region.

With drought already a wor‐ry in the region, as March was the driest in 20 years and the reservoirs are 15 per cent be‐low the average in the last decade, these temperatures won’t help.