The forecast of the State Meteorological Agency of high temperatures was known since last week, but not for this reason the blow when going out into the street was less yesterday in the Valencian Community. A stifling heat that extended to the entire territory, with the exception of the Castellón coast and the interior south of Valencia where there was respite for its neighbors.
In the rest, risk up to “very high” in the region, especially in 80 municipalities in which the Ministry of Health activated the heat wave alert in the framework of the surveillance of the “Program for Prevention and Attention to Health Problems derived from high temperatures. The ridge that affects the east of the Peninsula comes from the Algerian environment and introduces an air mass of Saharan origin, very hot and dry, accompanied by suspended dust. Everything, added to the high insolation of these summer dates.
The map of the emergency alert system of the Department of Health is almost colored red in the interior west of the Region, from Ademuz to the south. In anticipation, in Alcoi, the capital of El Comtat, the City Council has informed the population of the heat wave alert and has reviewed the protocols with the concessionary companies for cleaning and waste collection services. Thus, the afternoon shifts have passed to the morning and all activity has been interrupted at noon, such as clearing, for example.
Also in Monóvar the consistory has been informing through its usual communication channels of the guidelines to follow. There, as in other towns in Vinalopó Mitjà, there has been a high risk since yesterday due to high temperatures and tonight’s is expected to be an even hotter night. Given the situation, in Orihuela, for example, the council has asked the public for special attention in public events of the Reconquest Festival, which the city celebrates from yesterday until next Monday.
In Valencia, the consistory foresees individualized actions aimed at the most vulnerable groups, such as a specific protocol for the Telecare Service, information and specialized monitoring in weather situations, which affects, for example, the usual follow-up calls made to the user people. The Social Emergency Care and Emergency Collaboration Service (SAUS) in collaboration with the Civil Protection Volunteer Group has also been put on alert in relation to the increase in temperatures and exposure to solar radiation.
And in Alicante, given the risk of maximum temperatures and the yellow level of the city, they have activated preventive measures aimed at the homeless, for which reason the Department of Social Welfare is going to intervene these days with the street teams to warn of the high temperatures and daily they will distribute water and prevent possible heat strokes.
Likewise, the AEMET forecasts for yesterday night were of the same risk, since at the close of this edition there was a forecast of a tropical night throughout the Valencian Community, except in three towns: Alginet, Alborache and Barracas, where it was expected that the thermometers will be below 20 degrees. The worst, on the other hand, was expected in the interior of Alicante, where various towns in El Comtat and La Marina Baixa were even preparing for an “equatorial night”, with temperatures above 25 degrees.
However, today the temperatures are expected to be more intense, and even at night it will be torrid in some towns, since the thermometers will exceed 28 degrees in the southern area of ??the Valencian Community. The forecasts for this summer indicate that, in the Valencian Community as a whole, the thermal nature of the summer of 2023 will be “very hot or extremely hot”, with the exception of the extreme south of the Community, where there is even talk of a “very hot” summer. warm or extremely hot”, with probabilities of very high temperatures between 70 and 100%. Take the fan.
