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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. [1] In Spain , which already has a hot and dry climate, extreme events such as heatwaves are becoming increasingly frequent.
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 ...
Get the Alcobendas, Madrid local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
On 26 July 2023, the World Meteorological Organization station in Agia Triada recorded 46.1 °C (115.0 °F) making it the highest temperature in the country for that day. [50] [51] Throughout the prolonged heat wave, wildfires devastated parts of the country, killing at least 28 people, [52] mostly in the Athens metropolitan area and Rhodes. [53]
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.
‘Extreme’ heat warning escalated as UK set to roast in 30C scorcher. Warning returning El Nino could bring extreme weather from tropical cyclones to drought. Thursday 8 June 2023 20:19, Sam Rkaina
Disastrous floods have been reported throughout the history of Valencia, from the 14th century up to the contemporary period. [5] The 1957 Valencia flood was caused by a three-day cold drop (Spanish: gota fría) (which usually leads to heavy autumn rains in Spain and France); it overflowed the banks of the Túria river and devastated the city of Valencia.