Yesterday was the first of what looks like being well over a week of 40C+ days across Iberia, with 40.6C at Moron de la Frontera in Spain.
GFS max modelled temperatures for Portugal and/or Spain from today:
42C, 44C, 43C, 43C, 44C, 44C, 40C, 40C, 38C, 40C.
That's what "may" be headed our way.
Yateley, NE Hampshire, 73m asl
"But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand." — Jerome K. Jerome