2025 summer was Spain's warmest on record: weather agency | News

MADRID, Sept 16, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Spain sweltered through its hottest summer ever recorded this year, the national meteorological agency AEMET said Tuesday, the latest in a string of global temperature records. The average temperature settled at 24.2C this summer, smashing the previous record set in 2022, and the highest figure since records began in 1961, AEMET spokesman Ruben del Campo told a news conference. Nine of the ten hottest summers in Spain since records began in 1961 have occurred in the 21st century, he added. "We really are on this trend toward much hotter summers," the spokesman said. Spain endured a record 16-day heatwave in August which fuelled wildfires that killed four people, and which the Carlos III Health...