July has started with normal temperatures for the summer season, hot especially in the center, the south and the Balearic Islands, and storms, which are expected to be more frequent and stronger in the northeast of the peninsula, according to forecasts by the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet ). In Aragon, Castellón and Catalonia, these storms could accumulate more than 30 liters per square meter in just one hour; instead, 35 degrees will be exceeded in a good part of the center and south of the Peninsular.
The contrast between north and south will end as of Friday, with the “possible arrival of a very warm air mass” from Africa and that will cause a new thermal rise until reaching very high temperatures in the east and south of the peninsula, as well as in the Balearic Islands.
“There is still uncertainty about the areas that could be most affected by this possible warm episode and the duration of the episode,” admits the agency spokesman, Rubén del Campo.
The duration of this new “warm episode” is not less, because it could be considered a heat wave, the second this summer. The Aemet defines this event as an “episode of at least three consecutive days, in which at least 10% of the stations considered register maximums above the 95% percentile of their daily maximum temperature series”.
In the event that the forecast is maintained, Del Campo affirms that we can speak of an increase in temperature in most of the peninsula and the Balearic Islands, except perhaps in the northwest, that is, in Galicia, Asturias and the northwest of Castilla y León , where they will remain “a little lower.”
In the rest of the territory, 35 degrees will be “widely” exceeded and even 38 or 40 in the Ebro depression, southern Castilla-La Mancha, the Guadalquivir Valley and other areas of Andalusia. The nights would also be very warm and it could not drop below 20 degrees in most of the country, so there will be talk of tropical nights again in large areas of the center and south of the Peninsula.
