I mean what other explanation could there be... carbon dioxide was trapping in the heat and this surely led to the extreme conditions witnessed here.
Well not quite... You see as mentioned elsewhere in this site - the mystery - if that’s the word, never quite existed, and could certainly not be attributable to that scourge of the 21st Century (carbon dioxide) to be found in every can of Coke (trademark). The reason, more mundanely, was the result of very warm winds that came up from south west equatorial regions, as can be seen from the map below.
Meanwhile in Europe Britain was still in the grips of an abnormally cool summer - not withstanding that despite all indications to the contrary the local meteorological service was still pleased to call June of above average temperature (see here for more)
In Spain on the other hand temperatures of over 40 centigrade gave rise to yet more suspicions that the feared concentrations of carbon dioxide above the nation were strangulating the country of its fresh air.
Yet here again there was a considerably less sensational answer. Simply that winds were blowing up from the tropics to produce conditions of heat, that although elevated, is nothing unusual for areas of Southern Spain at this time.
