NIGHT temperatures have been reaching new highs and sleep was nearly impossible for residents without air-conditioning – especially in the province of Badajoz (Extremadura).
The town of Navalvillar de Pela registered lows of 35.1ºC on Monday and the early hours of Tuesday – the most sweltering night temperatures Spain has seen this year.
Not far behind and in the same province was Herrera del Duque, where the mercury did not drop below 34ºC overnight, and in the other Extremadura province of Cáceres, the town of Zorita saw lows of 33ºC.
Predictions that the heatwave was about to subside by Monday or Tuesday have so far proven unfounded – isolated snap storms on both days have not only failed to clear the air, but actually forced the mercury up.
And although temperatures have dropped slightly since Wednesday, humidity levels are rising.
On the Mediterranean, humidity today is at 85% with winds of barely 13 kilometres per hour (8.1mph).
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