Here in Bude we had a pleasant 23C today, though the humidity was at 74%. The sun has blazed at UV8, as on many days recently, and the factor 30 on my thinning pate was very welcome. We've had several holidays in southern Spain in recent years, in Almería province, in Granada and in Córdoba, and we've had 40C a number of times. One day we went to the spaghetti western town in the Tabernas desert. The big difference from the UK on almost every occasion was that the humidity was in single numbers. That's easy to cope with, as long as you can find a coffee bar with big umbrellas up...