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The heat that is coming this week in most of Spain could be the most important for a month of May of the last 20 years. Both the maximum and minimum temperatures will be extremely high for the season from Wednesday 18 and especially from Friday to Sunday. During the weekend you can reach 40 degrees in cities like Seville, Badajoz or Córdoba, while in cities like Zaragoza, Toledo or Madrid the maximum 38 degrees will be exceeded.
The records will be “extremely high for the time”, The spokesman for the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet), Rubén del Campo, has warned. The arrival of a warm air mass off North Africa Together with atmospheric stability, they will be behind the rise in temperatures.
In addition, in mid-May the days are long and the hours of sunshine are approximately the same as during the first fortnight of August. “We have many hours of sunshine that noticeably warm the environment,” explained Del Campo, who has also warned about the levels of ultraviolet radiation.
⚠️ We have a week ahead in which the #heat will be the protagonist. Very high temperatures, midsummer. It will exceed 35 °C in many parts of the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, and we could even register the first 40 °C of the year. pic.twitter.com/l55gzIG4Y1
— AEMET (@AEMET_Esp) May 16, 2022
The increase in thermometers is going to be progressive and also generalized, both in day and night temperatures. Since Wednesday, will exceed 34 or 35 degrees in the central hours of the day in large areas of the center and south of the peninsula and the Ebro valley, that during the weekend will extend to most of the Peninsula. Temperatures will be 10 to 15 degrees above normal this time of year. Only the northern third and the Canary Islands will be left out of the escalation.
“Maybe we’re talking about the first 40 degrees This year’s maximum temperature in points of the Guadiana, Tagus and Guadalquivir valleys, especially from Friday. They can reach these temperatures in cities like Seville, Badajoz or Córdoba. Other cities such as Zaragoza, Toledo or Madrid will probably exceed 38 degrees maximum“, Del Campo has said. In these areas, moreover, nights will also be very hot and it will not go below 20 degrees. That is, we would be facing the so-called “tropical nights”.
Although previously Spain has already reached 40 degrees in a month of May, as happened in 2015, when the 42 in points of the Valencian Community and the Canary Islands were exceeded, the generalized values that Spain faces this week mean that «this episode a priori it could be the most important of the last 20 years in the surroundings of the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands in terms of average temperature, that is, in terms of the unusually high maximums and minimums from Wednesday 18 to Sunday 22“, assures the Aemet spokesman.
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