July is hottest on record

Spain has not had a month as hot as July in more than six decades, the national weather office AEMET said Monday. For the first time since weather records started in 1961, July registered an average temperature of 25.6 C, that was 2.7 C above the recorded average for any month of July. The southern Andalusian town of Morón de la Frontera posted the highest temperature of the month with 46 C on July 24.