April records in Spain are beginning to fall. As temperatures rise into the 30s Celsius and heat across southern Iberia continues to intensify, local records are being passed. They are toppling and there are more days of heat to come.Of course, southern Spain can get much hotter. There is stable air under the high pressure, strong sunshine, a hot dry air mass from the south, from Africa. Each day is seeing an increase in the maximum temperatures as the heat builds in a situation more like summer.