Reacción a "The summer of 2026 was the warmest on record in Western Europe"

The Copernicus report is in line with the analyses carried out this summer by AEMET. The summer of 2026 has been the hottest in Spain for at least a century and a half, with no fewer than 61 days of heatwaves between 20 June and 7 September. An unprecedented situation. Furthermore, midsummer conditions began in mid-May and have persisted for much of September, so we can consider that we have had a summer lasting four months or four and a half months.

Moreover, it has been the third driest summer on record, leading to water stress and drought conditions that have raised the risk of wildfires to extreme levels for much of the summer in many areas. Unfortunately, we have seen how these extremely high risks have resulted in major forest fires. Although other non-meteorological factors, such as forest management, play a part in this issue, there is no doubt that anthropogenic climate change is contributing to conditions that increase the risk of forest fires.