LISBON: Portugal has recorded its hottest May since 1931, with severe drought now affecting most of the country, the national meteorological office said Thursday.“It was the hottest May in 92 years,“ the Portuguese Sea and Atmosphere Institute (IPMA) said in its latest monthly climate bulletin.The average top daily temperature was 25.87 degrees Celsius (78.57 degrees Fahrenheit), “the highest since 1931”, it said.Rainfall in May was “much lower than normal”, amounting to just 13 percent of the average for May recorded between 1971 and 2000.As a result, there was a “very significant spread of severe drought”, which has affected 97 percent of the country, the IPMA said.By the end of May, 1.4 p
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