The climatic summer has already ended on September 1 and the seasonal one is scheduled to do so on the 23rd of the same month, but the feeling, verified by checking the thermometers, perceived when returning in puddles of sweat after going out and reaffirmed by the complications to fall asleep, is that the heat is perpetuated.
And it is that after a summer of record temperatures since records have been kept, the heat wave remains persistent, even with its fluctuations in thermometers, beyond its usual dates.
Without being an exact science, there is usually an estimated date in the climatic cycles when temperatures begin to decline in Catalonia, and it is from mid-August, heading for an autumn with mild weather, only interrupted by a couple of swings of timid rebound.
But this 2022, the chain of successive heat waves has created a breeding ground in which temperatures, even after having exceeded these episodes, remain well above the average of historical records.
Another hot weekend
This same weekend we will live a new episode of peak heat in Cataloniadue to the first consequences that the already ex-hurricane will cause ‘Danielle‘: its drag effect will push south winds from the African continent that will shoot up temperatures again. In short, more heat both during the day and at night.
And one of the most affected areas 24 hours a day is Barcelona and its metropolitan areawhich has had more than a hundred tropical nights -above 20ºC of minimum temperature- and with more than a dozen torrid nights -temperatures above 25ºC-.
And during the day, the canicular overwhelm does not give any pause either, being worryingly normal to reach and exceed 30ºC at the central hours of the day.
When will we start saying goodbye to intense heat
The atlantic storm what ‘Danielle’ will have become will mitigate the effect that the southerly winds have had on the thermometers early next week, but even so, will not be enough to cause a sharp drop in temperatures.
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It will continue to be hot and the monthly forecast of the CFS models indicates a September and a last quarter of the year between 0.5 and 1.5ºC of thermal anomalytemperatures above what it would touch.
In any case, despite this anomaly, the gradual drop in temperatures as the days go by is a seasonal finding, so beyond the punctual weather instability, thermometers will gradually softenbeginning to chain, finally, nights below 20 degrees for the last week of Septemberwith maximums that will hardly come close to 25ºC.