No Apacar Cocheras

The sun has taken his hat off and refuses to come out to play as summer becomes a distant memory, along with your tan and flip-flops. As autumn sweeps in and the colours of the leaves change, the heavens open and Spain had a good drenching. I was quite happy tucked up in my warm igloo but these poor folks had a bit of a problem getting into their garages.

Factoid: South-eastern Spain has some of the most popular destinations for tourists from the UK and other European countries. Tourism employs 9.5 per cent of the workforce in Spain and is treated by the government as a key economic sector with good prospects. Spain's climate at present provides the ideal antidote to northern European weather: warm summers, a lot of sunshine, low rainfall and mild winters. But climate change will bring with it a likely rise in temperatures, for example, September in 2050 may well be as warm as a present day July. Other impacts of climate change in Spain are likely to include flash floods, heat stress and more forest fires.

BBC in depth report on climate change