2023-08-13 22:50:46
The weather station in Agadir in southern Morocco recorded a maximum temperature of 50.4C on Friday, considered the new national record, it said on Sunday. the General Directorate of Meteorology (DGM). The previous record dates back to July 13 (49.9 ° C) in Smara, a city in Western Sahara, according to the DGM.
Since the beginning of the summer, the whole of Morocco has been plagued by a series of heat waves which have brought temperatures to record levels. “This scorching weather is due to the rise of a mass of dry and hot air from the South causing a significant rise in temperatures and exceeding the monthly normal by 5 to 13 degrees, in particular on Friday 11 and Saturday 12” , explained the DGM in a press release. On Thursday, the city was swept away by a sandstorm, according to Morocco Weekly.
Forest fires near Tangier
The heat wave has caused forest fires in recent days in the north of the country, near Tangier, according to Hespressand further east in the province of Taza, according to AFP journalists on the spot.
These fires, of limited scale but fueled by violent winds, damaged or destroyed several hundred hectares of forest cover. They have not had any casualties to date.
A slight drop in temperatures expected in the north of the country
According to the European service Copernicus, the month of July 2023 largely broke the record for the hottest month ever recorded on Earth, with 0.33°C warmer than the month which held this title so far (July 2019).
As far as Morocco is concerned, July ranked fourth among the hottest July months since 1961. The DGM, however, predicts a slight drop in temperatures in the north of the Maghreb country in the days to come.
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