Spain was heading towards its hottest early summer temperatures in decades on Saturday.
Spain was heading towards its hottest early summer temperatures in decades on Saturday, with forecasts of between 40-42 degrees Celsius in Zaragoza in the northeast and areas of Navarre and La Rioja in northern Spain, according to national weather agency AEMET.
In Spain, Zamora, near the border with Portugal, and Catalonia, in the east, were among the worst hit by wildfires."It's been a hard night and intense work," said a tweet from the regional government of Castile and Leon, where Zamora is located. In Catalonia, firefighters who were trying to bring a fire under control in Baldomar said they expected Saturday to be"complicated" by"very high temperatures and a strong southerly wind".