"This is turning out to be another bad year, to put it mildly," olive farmer Francisco José García de Zúñiga says. "We've had two years of drought in a row, 2022 and 2023, and two years of bad harvests."
The combination of an unprecedented lack of rainfall and record-high temperatures gripping southwestern Europe for the second straight year had been projected by scientists – for 2043. The heat they warned about is already here.
