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Andalusia or Andalucía?

The autonomous region of Andalusia (Andalucía in Spanish) is in the southern part of Spain. It spans from Atlantic coast in the west to the sheltered coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the east and from Málaga's Costa del Sol to the borders of Castilla – La Mancha the famous flat lands and Don Quixote windmill country.  With an average of 300 plus days of sunshine a year the coastal area is an all year round destination. Not so in the inland provinces of Cordoba, Jaen and Sevilla which ha ve baking hot summers that can reach +40c and cold winters which can be 0c or less overnight. The Mezquita, Córdoba Andalusia is divided into eight provinces, each with a provincial city of the same name. Some of them are far more famous than others: Almería , Cádiz, Córdoba, Granada, Huelva, Jaén, Málaga and Sevilla. The three land-locked provinces are Córdoba, Jaé n and Sevilla, the rest are coastal. Each province and city is full of culture, history, traditions, fabulous monuments and cre...

Heatwave in Jaen

The present heatwave is supposedly hitting Cordoba and Jaen province the hardest. It´s melting the butter on the kitchen worktop and brought the fans into full-time use.

Melting and panting is what I´m doing plenty of too. The thermometer in the shade was saying 41.5ºC, 35ºC at 10am this morning. On top of that Google is teasing me by showing rain forecast for Jaen.




I look at the sky and think they´re wrong, but oh some rain would be lovely. I daren´t say that to family in England who are complaining about the weather and specifically rain.

Tomorrow, according to Google, it´s supposed to drop to 38ºC, let´s hope so. Update 28/06 Friends thermometer is Jaen city reading 48º.

Update 22/08 We are again getting temps over 40ºC pretty constantly - what a summer this year!

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