Last year I went on vacation to Spain with my family and it was absolutely unbearably hot there - over 45 degrees. Now I'm wondering if that's normal or if the climate there is really changing dramatically. Is that a temporary phenomenon?
Unfortunately, this isn't a temporary phenomenon, but a long-term trend linked to global warming - Southern European regions are heating up faster than the global average because the Mediterranean is getting warmer and there's less rainfall. What you experienced in Spain is becoming increasingly normal: extreme temperatures like these happen more often, while milder summers are getting rarer. That's also because weather patterns are shifting and heat waves are lasting longer than they used to.
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