Spain also had new records in March: the mercury had already risen above thirty degrees. But now the sun is taking it up a notch. According to the newspaper El Pas, which is based on data from Aemet, the temperature in large parts of Spain will rise above thirty degrees for several days this week. In Cordoba it will even be 39 degrees on Thursday. At night it cools down to twenty degrees.
LOOK. Spain also set new records in March
Aemet sees climate change as the cause. “In recent decades, the warm periods have started earlier, they last longer and they are more intense,” says a spokesperson. The record so far stands at 37.4 degrees in April 2011 in Murcia, but there seems to be a good chance that that temperature will be The warm period that is coming now is more intense than the one in the past, the meteorologists say.
There is no question of record heat in our region. The weather in Belgium is influenced by a harsh northeasterly wind, which brings “polar showers” from across the North Sea, predicts weather woman Jill Peeters. It is also very fresh for the time of year, with temperatures not exceeding 13 degrees.