UK tourists in France and Spain warned over alarming weekend and 'it's unusual'

France and Spain have experienced an unseasonable heatwave in April with UK tourists and holidaymakers warned. France and Spain are facing another day of summer heat in April amid an influx of British holidaymakers heading abroad for Easter and the start of the spring season.

In Spain, according to meteorologists, the maximum temperature could touch 35 degrees. The two countries in Europe are facing searing summer heat of 35C and many beaches across the Cote D'Azur are packed, from Nice to Monte Carlo.

Europe's climate monitor said Tuesday that March was the hottest on record and the tenth straight month of historic heat, with sea surface temperatures also hitting a "shocking" new high. Samantha Burgess, deputy director of C3S, warned: "We know the warmer our global atmosphere is, the more extreme events we'll have, the worse they will be, the more intense they will be."

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Sky News has covered the heatwave on Sunday and referred to it as "unusual". "Whilst we continue to see so much heat in the surface ocean -- so in the sea surface temperatures -- I think it's highly likely," Burgess said. "We know that the period that we're living in right now is likely to be the warmest that it's been for the last 100,000 years," Burgess said.

"Is it a phase change? Is the climate system broken? We don't really understand yet why we have this additional heat in 23/24. We can explain most of it, but not all of it," Burgess said. "Until we get to net zero, we will continue to see temperatures rise," Burgess said.

"This is a classic configuration, but with global warming, it's bringing about higher temperatures than in the past," explained Aurélien Ribes, a climatologist at the National Center for Meteorological Research (CRNM). The heatwaave has been credited to the 'Foehn effect'.

? "A low-pressure system off the Atlantic acts like a heat pump, bringing warm air from Africa to France," explained Amm.