The unusual 'veranillo' at the beginning of February has meant that Spain has reached 30 degrees for the first time in 2022, making it the

fifth earliest year to reach that value since 1931

.

According to data from the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet), collected by Servimedia, that barrier of 30 degrees was reached last Thursday in the Gran Canaria municipality of

La Aldea de San Nicolás

.

The historical series of the first days of each year in which some point in Spain reached or exceeded 30 degrees, beginning in 1931, reflects that the earliest year was 2007, when the weather station in the port of Mogán (Gran Canaria) marked 30 .1 degrees on January 13.

Behind are 2010 (33.9 degrees in La Aldea de San Nicolás and 30.5 in the port of Mogán on January 17), 2006 (30.7 in the port of Mogán on January 18) and 2012 (33, 2 in the Gran Canaria municipality of Maspalomas on February 1).

This 2022 ties with 2020 (30.4 at La Palma airport on February 3) as the fifth earliest year to reach 30 degrees.

"It is the first time in this year 2022 that 30 degrees are reached in Spain and it is one of the earliest times in our country. It is the fifth earliest," the spokesperson for the State Agency for Meteorology (Aemet), Rubén del Campo.

Del Campo pointed out that the other previous occasions in which 30 degrees have been reached have

"always" occurred in points of the Canary Islands

, although he added that "there is a tendency for 30 degrees to be reached earlier both in the peninsula and in the Balearic Islands ".

This value was produced after last Wednesday 30 degrees were touched at four observatories in the province of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Lanzarote airport (29.3), Pájara (29.1), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (29.0) and Yaiza Playa Blanca (28.8).

In addition, the anticipated spring made the port of Navacerrada (Madrid) record last Wednesday the record for the warmest February day since the historical series of temperatures in that place began in 1946, with 16.8 degrees at 1:30 p.m.

More than a month without rain

On the other hand, Del Campo indicated that the current episode of anticyclonic, dry and stable weather in most of Spain, which has lasted since the end of the Christmas holidays, could come to an end this Friday, when rains are expected to arrive in the northwest and east of the peninsula due to the withdrawal of the anticyclone towards the European continent.

"Most of this week will pass with stable weather in Spain

. The high pressures that have affected our country for more than a month will prevent the arrival of storms, so we expect a few days with very little rain, night cold and a milder environment than normal, with temperatures more typical of the month of April in many areas during the central hours of the day," he said.

Del Campo indicated that it is "possible" that as of this Friday there will be news in the weather situation because "a withdrawal of the anticyclone towards the east, that is, towards the interior of the European continent" is expected.

Although there is still "a lot of uncertainty" about how this change in weather will affect, Del Campo stressed that this displacement of the anticyclone will facilitate the arrival of low pressure in large parts of Spain and frontal systems that would bring rain to some areas and snow to the mountains, while that temperatures will drop to values ​​more typical of February.

"Let's remember that it's still winter," he reminded.

"It does not seem that, in general, large amounts of precipitation will be recorded

, but at least this cycle of several weeks will be broken with hardly any rain or significant snowfall. Let us remember that in many parts of the peninsula it has been more than a month since a single drop falls," commented Del Campo.

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