MADRID (AP) — Spain mentioned Tuesday that this summer season was the most well liked on document for the southern European nation, which like your entire Mediterranean area is being exhausting hit by local weather change.
Spain’s nationwide climate service mentioned that the nation had a mean temperature of 24.2 C (75.5 F) between June 1 and Aug. 31. That’s the highest temperature for the reason that service began maintaining data in 1961. The earlier document was 24.1 C from the summer season of 2022.
This summer season was additionally 2.1 levels Celsius (3.7 F) hotter than the nationwide common from 1991-2020.
The best single-day temperature of 45.8 C (119.3 F) was recorded in Jerez de la Frontera, in southern Spain, on Aug. 17 throughout a warmth wave.
The Mediterranean area is heating up 20% sooner than the worldwide common, in line with the United Nations.
The scorching summer season months additionally noticed Spain’s countryside burn.
A document 382,000 hectares (944,000 acres) burned in a spate of wildfires, surpassing the earlier excessive of 306,000 hectares (756,000 acres) burned in 2022, in line with information compiled by the European Union’s European Forest Fireplace Data System.
Spain’s climate service added that the nation additionally had a very dry summer season, particularly within the areas of the northwest the place wildfires did most of their harm.
