00:01In Spain, some 900 people died from high temperatures in the month of June, according to its Ministry of Health.
00:09Meanwhile, its meteorological agency recorded its second hottest June since records began.
00:16More than 600 of those deaths were concentrated in the week of the heat wave,
00:21making it the second June with the highest heat-related mortality since records began in 2015.
00:27The average temperature across mainland Spain was 23.2 degrees, 3.2 degrees above the average for the 1991-2020
00:37period.
00:38On the 22nd and 23rd of June, Spain recorded the two hottest June days since at least 1950.
00:46Only June 2025, with an average of 23.6, has been hotter in the AMET historical series, which began in
00:541961.
00:55Heat waves are now not only more frequent and intense, they are also arriving earlier in the calendar and prolonging
01:03the summer,
01:04driven by greenhouse gas emissions mainly from the use of fossil fuels.
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