Catalonia This Tuesday has registered the hottest day of this summer in a large part of the territory, with a maximum peak of 41ºC in a good part of the regions of Lleida and other points of Central Catalonia. However, they have not exceeded 42ºC nor has the record of 43.6°C in Alcarràs been broken on June 29, 2019 (Meteocat) or 43.4°C at the Lleida station on the same day (AEMET). The Mercury has peaked at 41ºC in Organyà (Solsonès), the same temperature that has been reached in the city of Lleida, according to data from the Servei Meteorològic de Catalunya (Meteocat). Is the warmest temperature recorded this year.
Much of the province of Lleida has exceeded 40ºC today and very high temperatures have also been recorded, above 35ºC in some parts of the Pyrenees, such as Vielha (Val d’Aran). At the Observatori Fabra in Barcelona the maximum temperature of 32 ºC was reached today, although with a humidity of 62% that has given a thermal sensation of 37 ºC. Weather forecasts indicate that this heat peak has already been passedwhich can’t technically be considered a ‘heat wave’ because it hasn’t lasted at least 3 consecutive days.
Today has been the hottest day of summer in the good part of Catalonia and the maximum temperature has exceeded 40 ºC in some sectors of Pla de Lleida and Vall del Segre.
The 41.0 ºC of #Lleida – la Femosa (#Segria) or Organya (#AltUrgell). pic.twitter.com/2LpOtfD0sA
—Meteocat (@meteocat) July 11, 2023
Likewise, in Spain the maximum temperatures have been recorded in Albacete (42.8 degrees), alcoy (42.7 degrees), The Alumni of Doña Godina (42.7 degrees) and in several locations in Andalusia, where 41 degrees have been exceeded in the central hours of the day.
The first hot night
Besides, last night was the first hot night of the year in a good part of Catalonia and especially on the coast of Barcelona. That is to say, that the temperatures did not drop below 25ºC. If we compare it with last year, the episode has arrived 26 days later. But if we compare it with the year 1987, 25 days advanced. In Barcelona, the thermometers did not drop below 25ºC. In a large part of the interior and pre-Pyrenean sectors, temperatures have not dropped below 26ºC. At 2,500 meters of altitude the temperature has remained at 15 ºC.
In Barcelona a temperature of 27.8 ºC at 1,500 meters of altitudean absolute record of 25 years ago, surpassing the 27.6 ºC that was measured on August 14, 2021 and July 23, 2009. The forecast is that this Tuesday still stays at high temperatures throughout the coastal and pre-coastal area and that as of tomorrow the maximum decrease to adapt to the most common of the month of July, although always above the climatic average.
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Many Catalan town halls have arranged measures to mitigate the heatwave after the activation of the alert made by Civil Protection. Some consistories have sent the workers of the municipal brigades to rest during the sunniest hours and others, such as Besalú or Montagut (Garrotxa), They have opened the municipal swimming pools for free.
The Mollet del Vallès Town Council (Vallès Oriental) has ordered that the municipal buses were free to prevent people from having to travel on foot. In Barcelona, there has been an increase in people, especially older people, who have attended the 227 climate refuges enabled30 more than last year, between civic centers, country houses, museums and libraries, where the air conditioning has been kept at 27ºC, as established by the regulations.