Autumn is coming: the air will be dry and temperatures will be above normal

Rubén Del Campo, spokesperson for the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet), at a press conference to present seasonal forecasts for autumn and climate analysis for summer, said that the months of October, November and December warmer than usual More “solid” throughout Spain and on the Mediterranean side and in the Balearic Islands. dir-dir The “hot” trend could be prolonged In the first months of next year, the spokesperson impacted the situation and announced that it will rain less than usual this autumn, with more frequent in the northwest of the peninsula.

Teresa Ribera, Third Vice President and Minister of Ecological Transition, attended the presentation for the first time. this summer has been “especially hot and dry” and stressed the need to anticipate extreme weather events as “we may face unbearable summers in the middle of the century”.

According to the Aemet balance, the summer of 2022 recorded the highest temperatures since at least 1961, easily outstripping 2003. Therefore, it should be noted, for example, that he was there this summer. 42 days when Spain was in heatwave conditionthat is, almost half the season, a figure multiplying the annual average of the last ten years (14 days) by three and the annual average of previous decades by six.

Del Campo pointed out that the average temperature this quarter – June, July and August – was 24 degrees. 2.2 degrees higher than normal average Therefore, it was an “extremely hot” summer with the highest average temperature in the historical series, exceeding 2003 by 0.4 degrees, the hottest summer ever.

Character surrounded by very extremely hot almost all of spainExcept for the coasts of Galicia and Asturias, the western tip of Andalusia and some other isolated spots where it has a very warm character. In the Balearic Islands, the summer was extremely hot in Mallorca and very hot in the rest of the islands, while in the Canary Islands as a whole it was very hot.

counted three heat waves: the first was between 12 and 18 June, the second earliest as there are records; the second, between 9 and 26 July, was outstanding in terms of duration (eighteen days was the second longest in the series) and extension (affecting 43 provinces, historical maximum) and was the busiest recorded in Spain. . The third heat wave from July 30 to August 15 was the third longest at seventeen days; In total, it was under waves for almost half of the summer, surpassing the previous record of 29 days in 2015.

If climatic historical records were available, Del Campo probably hottest summer in the last 100 years“.

the summers get longer

in the field precipitationthese happened scarce in June and JulyAs both were very dry, August achieved a normal value of rain despite having a very negative nature associated with storms. As a whole, write a very dry character, with 48 liters per square meter, which is 35% lower than the normal average; A dry summer in the Balearic Islands and little rainfall recorded in the Canary Islands gave the summer a very humid character, since normally almost no rain falls during the summer season.

Del Campo observed that with this situation, Spain ended the summer with a “meteorological drought” and was more intense in the inner parts of the western and northern halves of the peninsula. These data affect the current “very dry” hydrological year with precipitation. 25% lower of normal value and is likely to be among one of the three driest in the historical series.

One in Spain from Aemet prolongation of summers to the detriment of autumn and especially spring: Since the 1980s, summers have gotten longer by ten days each decade, a very present situation with a very hot May and very little precipitation in 2022.

Another data of great importance this summer was the surface temperature of the Mediterranean water between the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, which has been consistently above normal since the beginning of May.

Also, since the first week of July and without interruption, the highest 5% temperatures in the historical series have been recorded and averaged over 29 ºC in mid-August, an absolute record.