In the past week Madrid has sweated through five noches tórridas (torrid nights), the official term for a nocturnal temperature above 25°C
paniards know that the way to live with sweltering summers is to down tools during the hottest part of the day, then come to life during the long, cooler evenings. That folk wisdom has wilted in the heatwave engulfing western Europe. In the past week Madrid has sweated through five, the official term for a nocturnal temperature above 25°C. On Sunday the city held a minute’s silence for a street cleaner who died from heatstroke.
Some refuse to let the heat beat them. The organisers of the Tour de France have brought in water trucks to soak the roads and stop them from melting before the peloton passes through. That does little to cool down the competitors, however. One described the stages as “horrible, a furnace”.
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