The African air mass, which I reported last week has brought heatwave conditions to
most of mainland Spain, spead to the Canary Islands over the weekend.

Two elderly British tourists have died of heat exhaustion and two others have been
hospitalised after hiking in the interior of Gran Canaria in temperatures approaching
41C. I don't know if they were aware of the warnings in force in the area, and I mean
no disrespect, but sadly I can't help thinking of the old song about mad dogs and
Englishmen. Such an avoidable tragedy.