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The following list is the highest average mean maximum temperatures ever recorded in Spain, above 39.4 °C (102.9 °F). Cities in the interior of southern Spain recorded the highest average mean maximums temperatures ever in all of Europe. [26] [27]
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.
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 ...
Because of the Foehn effect, the southern slopes fall inside the rain shadow zone and so Green Spain contrasts starkly with the rest of Spain. The rainfall is generally abundant, exceeding 1,000 mm (39.4 in) and is fairly evenly spread out over the year, with the driest month above 30 mm (1.2 in), which is the minimum criteria for an oceanic ...
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 ...
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]