This August has not been the warmest of the last 30 years of this century nor.
This August has not been finally hottest of the last 30 years, nor of this world, but that sits in fifth and third position respectively. However, it has generally been very warm, with average temperatures that have exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius average normal value, surpassed only by the months of August 2003 and 2009.
So Europe has developed a Press spokesman of the State Agency of Meteorology (AEMET),, sto credits, Angel Rivera, while August has indicated that has been as warm as the month of July.
"The new century is still quite warm in general. Furthermore, it has rained normal for this time, which is low, although it is noted the mid-month episode that left heavy rainfall in Andalusia," he detailed.
Regarding the geographic distribution of the temperatures of the month, Rivera pointed out, STO gold, that August is "extremely hot" in Extremadura and Western Andalusia, with thermal anomalies of more than two degrees Celsius, even to reach this anomaly values over the three degrees in the Lower Guadalquivir.
In the rest of peninsular Spain, the general character month was "very warm", with abnormalities ranging from one to two degrees Celsius. Only in the Cantabrian regions, north and east of, ffxiv gil, Castile and Leon, Aragon and Valencia area, thermal anomalies were short of a degree, so even taking the month in these areas warm character.
In the Balearic Islands, meanwhile, average temperatures were normal or slightly below normal, while in the Canaries, the month was very warm, with thermal anomalies generally ranging between one and two degrees.
More heat between 25 and 27
August
Thus, higher thermal values of the month were recorded in the last ten days, during the heat wave affecting Spain between 25 and 27, especially the southern and eastern regions of the peninsular, with maximum temperatures that reached to reach the 27th values of around 44 degrees Celsius in points of the provinces of Valencia, Alicante and Murcia.
In this line, in many parts of the eastern third of the previous records were surpassed maximum August temperature: Valencia, Valencia (airport), Murcia, Murcia (Sewer), Zaragoza (Airport), Reus, Barcelona (Prat airport) and Tortosa .
Minimum Temperatures
On the other hand, the lowest August temperatures were recorded midway through the second decade, between days 14 and 18, with the absolute minimum values approached degrees Celsius in the highlands of the plateau and mountainous areas of the northern half.
The minimum value corresponded to major stations Navacerrada, which record 4.5 degrees on the morning of day 14, while in provincial capitals highlighted Leon (Virgen del Camino) and Vitoria (Foronda Airport) with 5.6 degrees, days 14 and 31 respectively.
Llovio normal
In addition, the month of August has appeared generally normal rainfall or slightly below normal, with an average rainfall of 18 liters Spains per square meter (mm) compared with an average value over the rrence period of 23 mm .
According to details the AEMET, as usual in the summer months, the spatial distribution of these precipitation has been very uneven, sothat the month is relatively moist to wet in Andalucia, south and east of Castilla-La Mancha, Murcia, central and southern parts of Valencia and Catalonia.
Meanwhile, dry to very dry resulted in Galicia, the Cantabrian regions, Navarra, La Rioja and Aragon most. In the rest of Spain, the month was generally normal character. Because locally heavy rainfall recorded in southern and eastern parts of peninsular observatories in Albacete, Murcia and Cuenca maxima exceeded previous records of the historical series for August, both monthly precipitation and daily maximum of precipitation.
Among the cumulative daily rainfall in major observatories in this month highlights the 69.9 mm recorded in Albacete on the 19th, followed by 68.3 mm of Cuenca on the 13th and 62.7 mm of Murcia-13 Raceway .