I sure hope not

 

It can't have escaped the notice of many people that this summer has had some pretty nasty weather conditions in a lot of places. This New York Times article addressed that, putting this into the context of something that a lot of people expect to do in the summer -- go on vacation.

Is This the End of the Summer Vacation as We Know It?

"As the summer travel engine kicked into high gear this year, it wasn’t just the scorching heat affecting carefully laid plans. There were also fires, floods, tornadoes and hail storms. Eight inches of rainfall left parts of Vermont coping with catastrophic floods. Tens of thousands of people, including thousands of tourists, had to evacuate islands in Greece because of wildfires. [And after that, extreme rains and major flooding.] (Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday offered a free weeklong stay in 2024 to those travelers affected — in spring or fall.) The popular music festival Awakenings canceled a date in the Netherlands because of concern over hail, lightning and thunderstorms."

 And it may affect where you decide to go:

"Yet change is coming, whether or not cooler destinations have the room. The European Commission projects that tourism on the continent — already the world’s biggest tourist draw — will grow regardless of warming conditions, but that higher temperatures will migrate demand, sending more tourists to Northern Europe instead of the Mediterranean. Southern regions would lose nearly 10 percent of their current summer tourists in one scenario."

So, if you can, book your travel for some time other than summer. But make sure that you don't go to hurricane prone regions in the fall (I don't recommend Bermuda right now!) and also, forested regions like the Pacific Northwest and California get more wildfires in the fall. Canada, of course, had wildfires this spring. 

Go Figueres (if it's not too hot there). 

And stay cool, if you can.