July has been the warmest month in Spain since at least 1961

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July 2022

has been the warmest month in Spain since there are records and has had an

Celsius, the highest average temperature not only in July but in any month of the year, at least since 1961, according to reports the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET), which adds that it

The AEMET spokesman, Rubén del Campo, has highlighted that this

for the whole of Spain, but this time it has exceeded the 2015 temperature by 0.2ºC, which was until now it was the warmest in the series.

The monthly balance of the meteorological agency also highlights that the heat wave was "the most important since there are records", since it was the most intense, the most extensive and the second longest in the series.

In the

, meanwhile, there were two heat waves during the seventh month of the year.

In addition to being extremely hot, 2.7ºC above the average of the 1981-2010 reference period, this period was very dry, as it

making 2022 the third driest July of the 21st century.

By areas, its extremely hot character affected the entire Peninsula except in areas of northern Galicia, the eastern Cantabrian, the Ebro valley and the peninsular southeast, where it was very hot.

In the Balearic Islands it was very warm or extremely warm, while in the Canary Islands it was very warm in most areas.

The

according to the climatology reached 4ºC above in Galicia, central and southern Castilla y León, Community of Madrid, Extremadura, western Castilla-LaMancha and in points of the interior of Andalusia and the Pyrenees. , even with anomalies close to 5ºC in some points of these regions.

Thus, the maximum daily temperatures averaged 3.3ºC and the minimum 2.2ºC, so

for the month.

The AEMET spokesman, Rubén del Campo, has underlined that 29 main stations have had their highest temperature ever reached since they began to accumulate data and in 41 the monthly average of daily maximums was the highest in the series and also has highlighted that in another 9 the highest average of the minima was reached since the observations began.

Likewise, he has referred to the

that has been "exceptional" both in duration and intensity, since it affected the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands from July 9 to 26, that is, 18 days that make it the second longest long since there are records in Spain.

It has only been surpassed by the one that took place between June 27 and

and whose duration was 26 days.

Regarding the extension, the spokesman In addition,

, tying with the most extensive so far, the one that took place in August 2012. It was also the most intense heat wave, since it has had a

, which "far exceeds" the heat wave of August 2021, which to date was the most intense.

Thus, with the information available, it confirms that the heat wave of July 2022 in the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands is "the most important in the historical series due to its exceptional intensity, duration and extension".

The cause of it is found in the presence of a powerful

that favored the displacement of a very warm air mass of African origin over the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands.

In short, the spokesman states that temperatures, both maximum and minimum, were well above normal for the time of year.

In Morón de la Frontera (Seville) 46ºC were reached on July 26.

Regarding the Canary Islands, he adds that it was also affected by this episode, although in the form of two successive heat waves: the first between July 9 and 11, and the second between July 24 and 26.

July also had two other warm episodes, one from days 2 to 5 and the other from day 28 to the end of the month.

In fact, only on the first day of the month the temperatures were below normal values ​​for the time of year.

THIRD DRYEST OF THIS CENTURY

Regarding

, Del Campo reports that an average of 8.6 liters per square meter was collected, which represents

during this period, which gives July 2022 a "very dry" character. , the third driest of this century;

the ninth since there are records and the driest in the last fifteen years.

All in all, July 2022 is behind the Julys of 2005 and 2007. On the contrary, in the

it was the third wettest July of the 21st century.

By zones, in the Peninsula July had a very dry character;

between dry and very dry in Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria, the Basque Country, Castilla y León, Extremadura, Toledo, Soria and eastern Catalonia, and even became the driest since there are records (extremely dry) in areas of the extreme north and from Burgos.

For its part, it was humid to very humid in the south of Navarra, in La Rioja Baja, in the southwest of Catalonia, southeast of Aragón and Albacete.

In the rest of July it had a normal behavior in terms of rainfall.

Meanwhile, in the Balearic Islands it was between dry and very dry except in the Pitiusas Islands where it had a normal character.

The Canary Islands went from humid to very humid in El Hierro, La Gomera and Gran Canaria;

normal in La Palma and much of Tenerife and Fuerteventura, and dry in Lanzarote.

However, although rainfall was "quite scarce" in general during the

in areas of Teruel and La Rioja.

That figure was also exceeded in the final part of July in the Pyrenees, inland Catalonia, Teruel and inland Castellón.

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