After several days of scorching heat, temperatures in large parts of Spain finally dropped below 40 degrees Celsius on Sunday. In the northern city of Zaragoza, temperatures were forecast to reach a mere 34 degrees, down from up to 42 degrees on Saturday. The extreme and unusually early heat also eased to an agreeable level on the popular holiday island of Mallorca, where thermometers showed some 30 degrees, but forest fires that had broken out there a few days earlier continued to rage. Meanwhile firefighters were still battling five active forest fires in the northern autonomous community of…