Summer continues with our Spanish neighbors. The thermometer has been climbing at high speed in Spain in recent days and is worrying local weather authorities. Temperatures around 30 degrees were recorded this Thursday in the country.
In detail, the Spanish meteorological agency, Aemet, recorded a temperature of 29.5 degrees near Valencia and 27.8 degrees in Malaga, in Andalusia. In nearly 400 stations in the country, the temperature recorded reached, or even exceeded, 20 degrees this Thursday, continues Aemet, i.e. one station in two installed in Spain. An important marker, underlines on the social networkRuben del Campo.
Mediterranean anticyclone
Proof of the panic in temperatures, the thermometer did not fall below 10 degrees during the night from Wednesday to Thursday in the small ski resort of Puerto de Navacerrada, located in the Madrid region, despite its 1,900 meters above sea level. altitude.
According to David Corell, researcher at the University of Valencia, this heat in the middle of winter is caused by the presence of a powerful anticyclone above the Mediterranean. “There are no studies yet that have evaluated the long-term trend of this type of event, but it is clear that we are experiencing this type of abnormal situation more and more frequently,” he explained. to AFP journalists.
Repeated heat waves
Proof of this is that this heat wave was also felt in the south of France, where the temperature displayed was close to 25 degrees this Wednesday in the Var hinterland. Several heat records have been broken both in the south of France and in Spain in recent days. The country has set heat records in recent months, against a backdrop of climate change. Last December, Malaga, in the south of the country, broke its heat record for a month of December with a peak of 29.9 degrees recorded.
Several heatwaves also affected the country from spring 2023 until the end of October, with a peak of 47 degrees in the south of the country during the heatwave episode of last July. A figure close to the absolute Spanish record, set at 47.6 degrees.
