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Date Published: 02/12/2022
ARCHIVED - This was the hottest November in Malaga for the last 80 years
November was also an extremely dry month, with less than 7 litres of rainfall per square metre, compared to the normal 100 litres per square metre
This November in Malaga saw the highest temperatures for this month in the last 80 years. Specifically, according to data from the Malaga Meteorological Centre, the average this year was 18ºC, which means that the thermometers have been, on average, 2.3 degrees above normal.
Not since records began to be kept (the first measurements were taken back in 1942) have such high temperatures been recorded at Malaga airport during the month of November, when the normal temperature is around 15.7ºC.
At the same time, rainfall has been “very scarce”. The days when it rained in Malaga in November can be counted on the fingers of one hand, and barely 6% of the water that would have been expected has fallen. In a normal year the average rainfall for the month at the Malaga airport station is 100 litres, but this year only 6.7 litres per square metre were collected.
“We have had an extremely dry autumn,” said Jesús Riesco, director of the Malaga Meteorological Centre, who recalls that October was already very dry and warm with a large part of the province having 30-degree days.
The question is whether December will manage to break this trend. At the Malaga Meteorological Centre, they hardly dare to say that it is going to rain in the province. It sounds like a joke, but the meteorological models announce one thing and then, when the moment of truth arrives, what actually happens turns out to be something else.
“I almost don’t dare to say it, because often the models give something and then recede,” said Riesco, and explained that what happens is that “Malaga is in the centre of the south and the Atlantic squalls that come from the west arrive weakened, and the DANAs and easterly flows that affect Almeria, Murcia, the Valencian Community and the Balearic Islands are not reaching us either.
“We are in no man’s land,” he added.
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