Shade is more than precious in Spain where the thermometer is reaching “abnormally” high levels for the season, in the words of the national meteorological agency (Aemet). “We will have very high, unusual temperatures in Spain, even though we are already in the hottest time of the year,” said Aemet on his Twitter account, referring to a mercury that could exceed 44 ºC in the region of Cordoba in Andalusia (south), even locally breaking new temperature records.
10 to 15°C above normal
These “abnormally high” temperatures will be on Monday “5 to 10 ° C above average in much of the interior of the peninsula and the Balearic Islands”. The situation will worsen on Tuesday since in some places, the mercury could be “between 10 to 15 ° C” above normal.
Object of all attention: the fire on the Spanish island of La Palma, in the Canary Islands off the African coast, which broke out on Saturday morning and decreased in intensity on Sunday thanks to a drop in temperatures. Still fought by hundreds of firefighters, its evolution remains “favorable”, the Interior Ministry said on Monday.
The intense heat episode is expected to last until Wednesday and from Thursday temperatures are expected to drop. A sign of global warming, the harvest has already started in certain areas of Andalusia, two weeks in advance.