Nighttime temperatures have also been unusually warm. The city of Cuenca posted its warmest low temperature for May: 67.1 degrees .
Nighttime temperatures in Spain are forecast to hover near or above 68 degrees into the weekend. High temperatures at night are of particular concern for vulnerable groups without air conditioning because of the physical accumulation of heat stress without adequate nighttime cooling.
High temperature records for May have also piled up in France. On Wednesday, monthly highs were established in the towns of Albi at 92.7 degrees , Toulouse at 92.1 degrees and Montélimar at 92.8 degrees .The heat in France, paired with potentially record dry conditions, is straining the country’s wheat crop. As of May 16, 73 percent of soft wheat was in good or very condition — lower than this time last year.
that Morocco posted its highest May temperature on record Friday, with a high temperature of 114.3 degrees in Sidi Slimane, a small city in the northwest part of the country.The excessively hot temperatures have been intensified by elevated concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from fossil fuel burning, Vautard said.
Spain and France have warmed around 3.2 degrees and 3.6 degrees , respectively, since the preindustrial era, much higher than the global average. In Spain, most of the increases occurred in recent decades too. In just the past 60 years, the country has warmed by 1.3 Celsius in just the past 60 years, according to a
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