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Lisbon Sets Record in Persistent Heat Wave

by Associated Press

   LISBON, PORTUGAL --

   Lisbon has broken a 37-year-old record to notch its highest temperature
   ever as an unrelenting wave of heat bakes Portugal and neighboring
   Spain.

   Portugal's weather service said the capital reached 44 degrees Celsius
   (111.2 degrees Fahrenheit) Saturday, surpassing the city's previous
   record of 43 C (109.4 F) set in 1981.
   The day's highest temperature of 46.8 C (116.2 F) was recorded at
   Alvega in the center of Portugal. The country's highest temperature on
   record is 47.4 C (117.3 F) from 2003.

   The hot, dusty conditions across the Iberian Peninsula are the result
   of a mass of hot air from Africa.

   Sunday's forecast calls for temperatures to dip slightly while
   remaining extremely high.