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Autumn, which has been "very warm," but also "humid," has been the eleventh warmest since 1965 and the eighth of the 21st century.

The season that ends is already giving way to a winter whose temperatures will be again above average and that, in addition, will be dry in the south of the Peninsula, according to the forecasts of the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET).

Since last summer it was also described as very warm and, in fact, set several temperature records in different European points, meteorologists already speak of " heat as a new normal ."

Astronomical winter starts on the 22nd at 05:48 (Spanish peninsular time) and will be, according to Aemet's predictions, warmer than usual in both the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, as well as drier than normal in the south .

The heat is the "new normal", said Rubén del Campo, spokesman for the Aemet, for whom the most likely scenario - in the whole of Spain - during the next three months is that the average temperature is 0.7 degrees above normal, and even up to 1 degree more, in areas of Catalonia and Teruel.

As for rainfall, the season that ends now has been wet throughout the country, with recorded rains that have reached 234 liters per square meter, that is, 15 percent above average, although, however, The distribution has not been the same in all communities.

Autumn has been "extremely rainy" in the Cantabrian slope, Galicia, southeast peninsular, Balearic Islands and Catalonia and, on the contrary, in the southwest, this peninsular and in the Canary Islands it has ended up as dry or very dry.

The climate balance of 2019, and in the absence of including these last days, has also turned out to be very warm, which suggests that the year "ends as one of the 10 warmest years in Spain since 1965", and among the six warmest of this century

Another spokeswoman for the Aemet, Beatriz Hervella, said there is "an obvious process of global warming," which affects daily life and health.

"The average energy expenditure that we use to cool a house has exceeded for three years the average cost we apply to heat it," Hervella exemplified.

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