Climate change: Spain breaks record temperature for April

While parts of Britain are cooler than average right now, the opposite is the case in many regions of Spain.

This combination is raising the prospect of early forest fires, with the national weather service warning that large swathes of the country would be at risk. Spain saw the most land burned of any country in Europe in 2022."We know that 2022 was the second warmest year on record for Europe, and it was the warmest summer on record," Dr Samantha Burgess from the Copernicus climate change service told BBC News.

This heatwave in Spain is not an isolated event - all across the world high temperatures in the first few months of this year have shattered records.Reservoirs are low in many parts of Spain thanks to a long running drought In Bangladesh, the capital Dhaka saw the mercury rise above 40C, believed to be the hottest day in 58 years.

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