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High temperatures have hit France and Spain this week. Mercury is set to reach 40 ° C in some Spanish regions on Friday, which will represent 10-15 ° C above average May temperatures.
In France on Wednesday, temperature records in May were equaled or broken in Albi (33.7 ° C), Toulouse (33.4 ° C) and Montélimar (33.8 ° C).
The French National Meteorological Service said that "now it is very likely" that this month will become the hottest May recorded.
"It's an episode of heat - prolonged, widespread and intense - extraordinary for the season," Matthieu Sorel, a climatologist in Météo-France, told AFP.