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Thermometers could rise as high as 25 ºC across much of Spain this week
With an anticyclone bathing Spain in balmy temperatures since the beginning of 2022, the drought situation continues to worsen throughout the country, with many areas preparing for water restrictions and farmers fearing the worst with their upcoming harvests. Spain has just experienced “the second driest January of the 21st century,” according to José Antonio Maldonado of Meteored, and “very little rain” is expected in the coming weeks.
Although last weekend was particularly wet in northern parts of the country, the current dry spell is set to last all week and the scattered showers forecast “will only reach the Cantabrian coast”, the meteorologist has predicted. And while some rain will fall in Galicia and neighbouring provinces in the middle of next week, this scant amount of precipitation will be nowhere near enough to replete the diminishing reservoirs, which are now at less than half their capacity across Spain.
A subtropical air current is expected to bring decidedly toasty temperatures this week, and if the mercury doesn’t reach record highs it will only be because there is a “great thermal contrast” between day and night-time temperatures, which overall balances the average.
From Wednesday February 16, the thermometers are set to rise to as high as 25 ºC in some coastal and south-eastern areas, while on Thursday, the sunny Region of Murcia could even exceed this. Meanwhile, Sevilla, Granada and Valencia can expect the mercury to hover somewhere around 20ºC.
Friday is tipped to be the warmest day of the week, with “extraordinary daytime temperatures for the time” of year, more typical of “mid or late spring”, the experts predict.
The anticyclonic front will remain over the country, and “some records could be broken in cities such as Teruel, Girona, Lleida or Granada”.
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