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The drought hit all of western Europe hard, not just Spain. To my admittedly vague understanding of this, it's expected and related. Even the drought areas are now suspectable to floods as the land is so dry it lost the ability to soak up water. It's a vicious circle.

By golly, you might be onto something. If you look at a map, there is a straight line from Pakistan across the Arabian Sea, around Yemen, up the Red Sea through the Suez Canal and right across the Mediterranean to Spain.

So it is conceivable the rain in Spain stays mainly in the Balochistan plain!

It can be misleading to pull individual data points on crop performance. US and Canadian wheat and corn crops are doing great this year.