Is May being extra hot in your area?

It's been on TV about the heat over here.

Last week we were with Log burner in the evening, woke up last wednesday I think it was, opened the door and the heat hit me, this week can't sleep without the air con on. There seems to be no lovely in between weather this year.

What a difference a few days makes.

we've gone from duvets to a sheet with a fan literally from one night to the next........ haven't used the aircon yet though

I seem to remember doing the same last year & the year before though - not sure exactly when

looking at this for the past few years it isn't much different http://www.wunderground.com/history/...q_statename=NA

surely it is a question of looking at the calendar, it is now mid-May so why shouldnt there be high temps.

2 years ago the BH's brother came to visit and he went home with sunburn on his rapidly balding head from early April sun.

the earth is a living breathing thing and we get so stuck into expecting things to be distinct cutoff from one season to another on a particular date.
things just dont work that way.

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It's been much hotter than usual over the last week.

It usually reaches 30c by the end of May but we have had it over 30c for the last 6 days, only today has it stayed below 30c.

Going back over my records for the last 8 years on only one other occasion have we had 6 30+ days in the month and they were right at the end.

For 4 other years it has been 30+ on 1 or 0 days in the month.

The long range forecast suggests it getting cooler (near normal) from today for about a week and then picking up again but probably not getting as hot as it has been over the last week.

same here! Ive just finished washing and drying all the duvets and heavy blankets in the house and taken out the summer linen!! I havent been able to sleep without the aircon...DD bless her hates the warm nights so had to invest in a fan for her room as she has no air con.

Is it usually this hot in early May???

Nobody can predict the weather anymore like in England there is no such thing as seasons nowadays

Been raining here since I came back last Thursday, I am sooo fed up with it.. only another four weeks and I'm back in Spain. Can't wait.

I'm back in England at the moment been back here just over a week sorting a few final things out its thundering and lightning in Birmingham not that I care because my flight back to Spain is at 6.30 in the morning happy days lol

Quite a few Spanish around my way were complaining about the excess heat and sudden change last week, saying it was far from the norm.

When it comes on gradually ppl have a chance to acclimatise, but this caught quite a few out, incl. myself, and apparently some older ones are suffering a bit.

This trend towards little or no in-between period, (spring or autumn), seems to me to have increased in recent times and not only in Spain.

Maybe it ties in with the continued trend to more extremes of weather.

I have been topping up my tan since early February, but it was only about 18c Not 40c which we have had here this week, it's been 35c through the nights.

I'm glad your records confirm what my amateur impression has been - in Velez-Malaga we've had temps around 32C for a few days before today, although today has been cooler, only 27C a short while ago as I was coming home. It has seemed to get hot a few weeks earlier, normally it's been late May/early June before we've had that "someone flicked a switch and Summer's here" feeling.

Night time has still been pretty cool though, we have no air con and I've not had to open the windows or put a fan on to sleep yet.

I am glad the forecast is to stay cooler for a few more days though, I was getting a bit worried about what July and August were going to be like if it was 32C in mid May!

Today its 120*f or 48*C outside my door..

Really? Is your thermometer in the sun?

The officially recorded temperature in Las Palmas today at 6pm was 28 degrees.

The all time temperature record is 39c.

We've had 38c - the Spanish are telling us that this is an unusual heat-wave for this time of year.

They say that it will only last another 3 days or so before returning to normal.

Lived in Spain 15 years and never known 35C through the night, that would be a health hazard Infact we didn't get those temperatures in central Africa or Egypt.