2023-08-11 02:02:09
Updated Friday, August 11, 2023 – 02:02
Valencia airport reached 46.8 degrees on Thursday afternoon, 3.4C more than the previous record. On Sunday few areas of the Peninsula will exceed 40 degrees but it will be 35. The Aemet warns of the high or extreme risk of fires in almost all of Spain in the coming days
An urban thermometer in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento in ValenciaManuel BruqueEFEEl Tiempo en España Consult the meteorological information
The arrival of cool winds from the northwest cooled the north of Spain a bit on Thursday, but the rest of the country continued to scorch and we will continue to do so until at least the weekend, when the third heat wave that we have suffered this summer is expected to end. although temperatures will continue to be very high in most of the country.
As explained by Rubn del Campo, a spokesman for Aemet, these same northwesterly winds arrive overheated in the Mediterranean area, the entire Levant and southern Andalusia, further increasing temperatures, especially in parts of the Valencian Community and in the Region of Murcia. Thus, the Valencia airport reached 46.8 degrees on Thursday afternoon, which is 3.4C more than the previous record, recorded in 1986, in a historical series that dates back to 1966, according to Aemet on the network. social X (formerly Twitter).
Records were expected for Wednesday, considered the worst day of this heat wave, and according to Aemet, that of the soria city, what reached a maximum temperature of 38.9 C, an absolute record in a series that is 80 years old, beating the 38.7 registered in July of last year.
The early morning from Wednesday to Thursday was another night not to sleep. Seventy-five stations in the Aemet network recorded hot nights, that is, they did not drop below 25 degrees. In towns in the East and South of the peninsula at 8 in the morning the thermometer had not dropped below 27 degrees. But there were places in the Canary Islands where they had to endure 30 degrees at night, such as San Bartolom de Tirajana, on the island of Gran Canaria.
The Canary Islands will be from Friday and at least until Sunday one of the territories that suffers the most from the suffocating heat, since today their own heat wave begins, which will exacerbate the situation that they already began to experience yesterday, with the entry of air very hot coming from the Shara and dust in suspension that will give rise to haze. According to Del Campo, the maximum will reach 37 -39 degrees in many parts of the Archipelago and will exceed 40 in the south of Gran Canaria, where the next few nights will also be very hot, as they will not drop below 30 degrees and it could be that they will reach 32 degrees night.
Today the maximum temperatures in the Mediterranean area will drop and they will rise in wide areas of the rest of the rest of the Peninsula. It will be very hot, reaching more than 42 degrees in large areas of Andalusia and with a good chance of reaching 44 degrees in the Guadalquivir Valley and in the province of Huelva.
For the weekend, says the Aemet spokesman, “a temperature drop is expected in the peninsula and although the necessary thresholds to be able to speak of a heat wave in peninsular territory may no longer be exceeded, temperatures will continue to be high, especially on Saturday where there can be more than 40 degrees in the Guadalquivir valley, and 35 degrees in large areas of the interior, values in many cases between 5 and 10 degrees above normal”. On Sunday few areas will exceed 40 degrees but it will be 35.
According to Del Campo, the risk of fires will be very high or extreme these days in almost the entire country, also when temperatures drop, because we have been without rain for many days.
The Aemet spokesman also advanced the forecast for the bridge on Tuesday, August 15 for the Assumption of the Virgin festival: “We will continue with the heat of midsummer, a maximum temperature of 35 degrees in large areas of the east, center, and south of the peninsula and in the Balearic Islands, about 32 degrees in the Northern Plateau and between 30 and 32 degrees on the Mediterranean coast, with a feeling of muggy there due to the high humidity”. It will be cooler in the Cantabrian, with 25 to 30 degrees. And for now, the forecasts indicate that from Wednesday there will continue to be high temperatures and there will be hardly any rain.
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