# Spain recorded one-thousand-and-29 deaths attributable to heat last month. Official data shows a five-day heatwave with temperatures surpassing 40-degrees Celsius made it the second-hottest June on record after the same month last year. Weather agency AEMET says average temperatures were 3.2 degrees higher than normal. Data on the Health Ministry’s daily mortality monitoring system shows this June had the most deaths attributed to heat since the same month in 2015.
Spain attributes over a thousand deaths to heat in second-hottest June ever