As suspected, this May has been the hottest month in Spain since records were broken, especially since 1961. Based on the meteorological data, both the average maximum temperatures and the monthly average are confirmed to be the highest since data were collected. The warmest May on record so far was in 2020.
José Antonio Maldonado, Meteored’s director of meteorology, said: May 2022 exceeded the average temperature of the reference period by almost 3ºC, This covers the years 1981 to 2010, when that month offered an average temperature of 16.6ºC.
As for the average minimum temperatures, in this case, May ranks second in the historical record series, as the average minimum for 2020 is slightly higher than this year.
Unlike what happened in the rest of the spring, May was pretty dry.caused the reservoirs to decrease compared to the same period of the previous year.
June will be warmer than usual
June begins with precipitation in various parts of the Peninsula (until Sunday), especially in Galicia and Asturias, as well as northwest of Castilla y León, Extremadura, and isolated Huelva and the Canary Islands. However, temperatures will be normal for the season in the coming days. In the Ebro valley, there will be areas exceeding 35ºC.
In the second week of the month, little, if not zero, precipitation is expected in almost all of Spain. Only on the coast of Cantabria could it rain a little.
Similar temperatureswill be slightly above normal values in Galicia, the Cantabrian regions, the Mediterranean coast, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands, and clearly above normal values for time in the rest of Spain. Therefore, a month of June, marked by a very hot environment, is expected.
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