June was the fourth warmest on recordJuly has been the warmest month, and the first fortnight of August 2022 the second hottest in the series, only surpassed by 2003, according to data published by the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet).
The current hydrological year (from October 1 to July 31) is the fourth driest in the historical serieswhose beginning is in 1961. It has rained 26% less than normal.
Waiting for the end of August, “they were only drier, in this order, from October to July, 2004-2005, 1998-1999 and 2011-2012”, The spokesman for the Aemet, Rubén del Campo, has reminded Efe.
The calendar year 2022 is, until July 31, the third driest of the historical series (behind 2005 and 2012) and also, to date, the third warmest (behind 2020 and 2017).
On the other hand, according to the latest bulletin with the summary of the evolution of rainfall in Spain, recently published by the Aemet, the average value of accumulated rainfall in the hydrological year, from October 1, 2021, to August 16, 2022, is estimated at 430 liters per square meter, about 26% less than the normal value in that period (583 liters per square meter).
“The accumulated amounts do not reach the normal values in a large part of the peninsula, except in the provinces of Granada, Almería, Murcia and the Valencian Community, as well as points of the Cantabrian coast, in which the normal values were exceeded”, of according to the document.
In the Canary archipelago, precipitation did not exceed normal values in none of the islands, remaining below 50% of its average value for the period 1981-2010, although the Balearic archipelago did exceed them on the western side of the islands.
As for the rainfall in the last week alone (from August 10 to 16), which affected a large part of the peninsula and the western Canary Islands, it exceeded 10 liters per square meter in Galicia, Asturias, points in Castilla- La Mancha, north of Castellón and points in the Pyrenees, where 40 liters per square meter were reached.
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Among the rainfall accumulated in the main observatories of the Aemet, the 28 liters per square meter in Tortosa (Tarragona), 24 in Santander and 16 in Albacete stand out.
On the 17th, rainfall was recorded at points along the Cantabrian coast, in areas of the provinces of Girona, Barcelona and the north of the Balearic Islands.