MADRID: The extreme heat that engulfed Spain, Portugal and parts of North Africa last week would have been "almost impossible without climate change," an international scientific study found on Friday.

The "exceptional early heat wave" involved "local temperatures up to 20 degrees hotter than normal, and April records being broken by up to 6 degrees," said the report by the World Weather Attribution (WWA), whose scientists study the link between extreme weather events and climate change.

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