Fall will be hotter and drier than normal after hottest summer on record

Autumn 2022, which will begin on Friday, will be

than normal throughout Spain, especially on the Mediterranean side and in the Balearic Islands, and also in line with the trend of recent months, it will be drier and less rainy than expected. normal, especially in the peninsular northwest quadrant, as reported by the

(Aemet).

During the seasonal press conference, the spokesperson for the Aemet

stressed that this seasonal prediction is also

, since the probability is between

and that this warm trend could also

during the

.

As in Spain, it will also be a warmer autumn in the rest of

, especially in the

and in the

, and drier and rainier than usual in the eastern Mediterranean and in the Scandinavian countries, respectively.

In that regard, the Third Vice President and Minister for

,

, who for the first time has participated in the Aemet press conference, has lamented this forecast that indicates that the next quarter will be hotter than normal, although she has commented that perhaps on this occasion don't play against "given the circumstances of the

".

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For his part, the spokesman for the Aemet

has highlighted that all this comes after the

, the hottest to date, since the quarter June, July, August, has reached an average temperature of 24 degrees Celsius (ºC), that is,

than the normal average.

In fact, this has been the hottest summer since 1961, in

and it has had 42 heat wave days.

"It was an extremely hot summer, the one with the highest average temperature in the historical series, exceeding by 0.4 ºC that of 2003, the warmest to date," Del Campo stressed, noting that if heeded From climate reconstructions, the summer of 2022 could be said to have been the warmest in over a century, at least since 2016.

Likewise, he stressed that the data confirms that summers are getting

to the detriment of autumn and, especially, of spring, and added that this is the first time that eight consecutive summers exceed normal values.

Specifically, he estimates that since the 1980s, summers have lengthened by ten days each decade.

This trend is confirmed by 2022, which had a very warm May and the first fortnight of September that is also registering very high temperatures, and even above 40ºC in the Guadalquivir valley and close to that figure in points of the eastern Cantabrian Sea.

In fact, this month is leaving thermal records, especially at night, which are being very high, especially in the Mediterranean and in the Bay of Biscay.

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