Key Points
The record figure was reached in Cordoba airport in southern Spain just after 15:00 local time (14:00 BST)...
Temperatures are completely out of control this year," Cayetano Torres, a spokesman for Spain's meteorological office, told BBC News.. Experts were surprised by the scale of the heat experienced across southern Spain in recent days...
In some locations records are being beaten by a 5C margin, which is something that has happened only a handful of times at weather stations around the world," said Maximiliano Herrera, a climatologist who runs an Extreme Temperatures twitter account...
"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.. "Europe is warming at twice the global rate and we know because there is a higher rate of warming, there's a higher probability of extreme events..
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...
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