The summer, which will begin on June 21, is again expected to be very hot and with storms "more abundant than other summers" in Spain, after the warmest spring in the last 62 years. This has been advanced by the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) at a press conference on Wednesday.

The spokesman for the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet), Rubén del Campo, explained that the probabilities point to a summer not only warm, but "very warm", and stormy. "We cannot know yet if it will be hotter than last year's summer, but it could be among the five warmest in the last 30 years," the spokesman said.

The warmest spring ever recorded

Aemet has also reported that the spring of this 2023 has been the warmest ever recorded in Spain since there are climate statistics in the country. This spring, which was marked by an exceptionally premature heat wave in April, was also the second driest in living memory.

During these three months, the average temperature in the country was 14.2 degrees, 1.8 degrees above normal at this time of year and 0.3 degrees above the last record spring, which was in 1997.

It was at the end of April when a mass of warm and dry air from North Africa brought record temperatures to mainland Spain, with 38.8 degrees in the south of the country, a level worthy of the month of July. This "extreme heat (...) it would have been almost impossible without climate change," according to a scientific study published in early May by the World Weather Attribution (WWA), a global network of scientists that assesses the relationship between extreme weather events and climate change.

On the other hand, May was marked by temperatures that were on average below seasonal normals, according to the Aemet. Spain, a European country on the frontline of climate change with almost 75% of its territory at risk of desertification according to the UN, has seen an increase in the number of episodes of exceptionally high temperatures in recent years.

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