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The town of Chiva, west of Valencia province, recorded 491mm of rain in just eight hours – more than it has seen over the past 20 months, according to Spain’s weather service.
Climate change has caused temperatures in the world to rise in the last few decades, and temperatures in Europe have risen twice as fast as the average change in the rest of the world. [44] In Spain, which already has a hot and dry climate, extreme events such as heatwaves are becoming increasingly frequent.
Climate change has caused temperatures in the world to rise in the last few decades, and temperatures in Europe have risen twice as fast as the average change in the rest of the world. [1] In Spain, which already has a hot and dry climate, extreme events such as heatwaves are becoming increasingly frequent.
Severe weather can occur under a variety of situations, but three characteristics are generally needed: a temperature or moisture boundary, moisture, and (in the event of severe, precipitation-based events) instability in the atmosphere.
Human-caused climate change made Spain’s rainfall about 12% heavier and doubled the likelihood of a storm as intense as this week’s deluge of Valencia, according to a rapid but partial analysis Thursday by World Weather Attribution, a group of international scientists who study global warming’s role in extreme weather. Monstrous flash ...
Highest temperatures ever recorded in Spain [ edit ] On July 30, 1876 and August 4, 1881, temperatures of 51.0 °C (123.8 °F) and 50.0 °C (122.0 °F) [ 1 ] were both reported for Seville : these readings are unreliable, since they were measured under a standard exposure and in poor technical conditions. [ 2 ]
Ocean temperatures fuel an early Hurricane. Even the richest nations were not able to fully protect themselves from extreme weather this year. The US experienced two back-to-back hurricanes ...
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