2023-08-10 20:56:42
Temperatures approached 47 degrees in Valencia on Thursday, a historic record for this city in southeastern Spain, according to provisional data from the national meteorological agency, in a country which has suffered its third intense episode of heat wave since Monday. the summer.
Fans, umbrellas as parasols and frequent refreshments in the many public fountains are a must in the east of the country, where eight areas around the cities of Valencia and Murcia are on red alert, synonymous with extreme risk due to strong heats.
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In the afternoon, “Valencia airport reached 46.8°, which is 3.4°C higher than the previous record, recorded in 1986”, said the Spanish meteorological agency (Aemet) on its X account (ex-Twitter). These data still need to be confirmed to be approved.
OFFICIAL DATA | 46.8 ºC at the Valencia airport. Historical record in this observatory exceeding 43.4 on July 6, 1986.
The breeze is arriving and it begins to descend slightly. pic.twitter.com/pwr22XdP0d— AEMET_C. Valenciana (@AEMET_CValencia) August 10, 2023
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“We can’t live in our apartments”
The historic record for Spain was broken on August 14, 2021, with 47.6°C recorded at La Rambla, south of Cordoba, in Andalusia (south).
“This summer has been horrible […] we cannot live in our apartments”laments to AFPTV Nazim Ali, a resident of Valencia, a city on the Mediterranean coast. “At night, we turn on the air conditioning or the fan. During the day, we try to leave as late as possible […] and we go to the beach”testifies another inhabitant, Roberto Giménez.
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Six stations around Valencia and the neighboring city of Castellón recorded temperatures above 44°C on Thursday. On Wednesday, two areas near Seville and Granada, in Andalusia, had exceeded this threshold.
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Friday should normally mark the end of the third heatwave episode of the summer, with two areas around the cities of Cordoba and Seville on red alert, as well as the south of the island of Gran Canaria, off the Atlantic coast of Morocco, where temperatures should once again rise to around 44°C.
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Experts consider the multiplication of these heat waves, as well as their increasing duration and intensity, as consequences of climate change.
These heats, as well as the drought, favor the outbreak of fires and almost the entire country is on red alert on this front. More than 1,300 hectares have burned in less than a week in Spain. Nearly 71,000 hectares have burned since the start of the year, according to the European Forest Fire Information System (Effis), far from the 2022 record with more than 300,000 hectares destroyed.
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