Is the heat wave the "Filomena" of high temperatures?

• Heat wave When will the heat wave end: this is the date according to Aemet

Maximum values ​​shot up to 45 degrees and torrid nights with minimums above 25 degrees;

The second heat wave this summer in Spain leaves similar weather scenarios to areas of the Sahara.

, surely yes.

Spain is not North Africa, but sometimes it resembles it in thermal terms, says

, Meteored meteorologist, who clarifies that it is very difficult to reach 47 degrees, although forecast models suggest that in certain areas of Extremadura, specifically Badajoz, these days can be recorded between 46 and 47 degrees.

Of the 809 meteorological stations from which Aemet offers data, in at least 112 (14%) 40 degrees or more were measured yesterday and in 28 stations (3%) 43 degrees or more;

At night, the minimum temperature this Thursday in Madrid-Retiro was 26.2 degrees, so it could be

.

It would be the third most persistent heat wave in Spain, the first was in 2015, lasting 26 days, and the second in 2003 with 16 days;

If forecasts come true, this heat wave could be the third most persistent since 1975.

can be applied to this heat wave

, Martín explains that it is a "curious concept", which exists from a technical and meteorological point of view, but applying this concept to our situation current weather, is not, in his opinion, the most successful.

At this point, the expert emphasizes detailing the

"intense, long-lasting and extensive" heat wave in Spain: firstly, a DANA over the Peninsula, secondly, an anticyclone to the north of the peninsula, and that it does not allow to move, and, finally, a dorsal located in the south.

These three factors do not generate a dome of heat, says the meteorologist, to emphasize that the term is not applicable to the current situation in Spain, but he is aware that it sells a lot in the media.

Likewise, -continues Martín- it is necessary to take into account the entry of air from the southern component of African origin, an added value and that is behind the red warnings for extreme temperatures yesterday, today and tomorrow issued by the Meteorology Agency.

DANA-Anticyclonic Ridge

The expert has observed that there are certain

that tend to generate extreme heat, such as the current model: an anticyclonic DANA-Dorsal adequately located over Spain and that occurred in the first heat wave of June 2022, has been produced in the current July, and could be repeated in the near future (and has been generated in the past).

As long as the situation continues, we will have extreme heat in areas of the Peninsula, the expert details, to specify that the erratic displacement of DANA, with uncertainty in its prediction in the coming days, will mean that

, or even July 18, Monday.

Even so, the temperatures in the following week will continue to be summery but with more typical values ​​for the time of year, details the meteorologist.

This atmospheric pattern, which brings us very high temperatures, not only has consequences for Spain, but also

, some of them extreme.

The torrid air of African origin would ascend through the Iberian Peninsula, overheated, to enter through France, Belgium, Germany, and would even reach the United Kingdom and, under certain conditions, the south of the Scandinavian countries in the form of a tongue or plume of high temperatures and extreme.

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