The ‘spring’ or current episode of exceptionally high temperatures for the time of year, with values ??more typical of the end of June than mid-April, has skyrocketed again this Sunday and has reached a historic figure in the city of Barcelona .
The temperature has risen especially at the Fabra Observatory, where before noon it set a historical record of 29.1 degrees. This is a provisional measurement, measured by the temperature sensor of the automatic weather station, so we will have to wait until the afternoon to find out the official record.
This Sunday’s 29 degrees represents a historical record for the month of April and destroys the precedent of April 2023, which recorded a temperature of 27.5 degrees. Never before had such high temperatures been reached at the Fabra Observatory. Other figures that have been recovered for comparison were those of April 20 and 21, 1945, reaching 26.9 and 27.2 degrees, respectively.
The extraordinarily high temperatures that affect almost all of Spain where, according to AEMET, “30 degrees were exceeded in more than 65 meteorological stations of the state network”, and even 33 degrees in points of the Pyrenees, northern Castilla y León, southern Galicia and the Canary Islands.
These are maximum temperatures that were “among the 5% of the warmest recorded on these dates”, which means that they were between 7 and 16 degrees above normal, the Meteorology Agency has detailed, to specify that in areas of the northern third were temperatures typical of summer.
Temperatures will drop this Monday in the northern half of the peninsula and the eastern half of the Canary Islands, notably the daytime temperatures in the extreme north of the peninsula, although in the southern third of the Peninsula they will rise and the rest of the country will continue with thermometers above normal for this time of year. According to the forecast of the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet), the maximum temperatures will drop to 31º in Seville and Murcia and 30º in Badajoz and Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
This Monday, locally strong showers and storms are expected in the interior of the southeast quadrant of the peninsula, where temperatures will drop. Thus, there will be cloudy and overcast skies throughout the extreme north of the peninsula, with weak or moderate rainfall and some storms.
The rest of the country will be slightly cloudy in principle, although it will become unstable in much of the interior of the peninsula, with diurnal cloudiness, and the possibility of some showers or storms, more likely and intense in the interior of the southeastern quadrant, where they could be locally strong. , and very unlikely in the western third and in the Mediterranean area.
As for the wind, it will blow light or moderate with a northerly component in the northwest half of the peninsula and light variable in general in the rest.