The month of April was marked by "extreme heat" recorded in the Iberian Peninsula and part of North Africa. According to a scientific study published on Friday, this heat wave, with temperatures sometimes exceeding seasonal normals by 20 degrees, "would have been almost impossible without climate change" "We are going to see more and more frequent and intense heat waves in the future," warns Sjoukje Philip, a researcher at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute.
In Spain, the main farmers' union estimates that 60% of agricultural land is currently "asphyxiated" by the lack of rainfall.