Sizzling summer on the cards, warns Spanish Met Office
Friday, June 23, 2017 @ 5:54 PM
This summer, which officially started at 6h24 on Wednesday, looks set to be a hot one across the whole of Spain with temperatures between 0.5 and 1 degree higher than the season average, especially in central and southern regions, after the hottest spring of the 21st century.
A spokesperson for the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET), Ana Casals, said in a press conference yesterday that the high temperatures experienced over the past month suggested that July, August and September would continue in a similar vein as was the case with the hot summers of 2003, 2015 and 2016.
Casals also mentioned that meteorological analysis was increasingly showing that "summer starts earlier" and that forecasts predict it to move forward by a whole day every ten years.
With regard to rainfall this summer, little or no change is expected across the pensinsula, although there might be slightly less in some areas.
Casals highlighted the fact that June started in normal temperatures, but that from 7th or 8th onwards temperatures started to rise much higher than normal in the south-eastern provinces, in Castilla y León and in the Ebro Valley. The intense heat continued until June 18th and temperatures remain very high for the time of year.
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