Spain Equals September Heat Record at 45.7C
Aemet said the reading was Spain’s highest this year and matched the national September record as summer-like heat topped 40C across the south and west.
- On Thursday, September 3, the municipality of El Granado in Andalusia registered 45.7°C, matching the 2016 record in Montoro for Spain's highest September temperature on record.
- Spain experienced its hottest January-August period on record, with weather agency Aemet announcing the heat arrived "with a clear difference" compared to the four previous years.
- Aemet issued rare red alerts for heat in Andalusia on Thursday, marking the first September warnings since 2007. The agency stated, "It is an unmistakable sign that, in Spain, warming is accelerating."
- Across Europe, extreme temperatures have caused thousands of excess deaths and disrupted the economy through drought and low river levels, impacts scientists attribute to human-driven climate change.
- Summer-Like heat topping 40°C has baked southern and western Spain this week, following Aemet's announcement that July was the country's joint-hottest month on record.
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At 45.7 degrees, Spain is reporting the setting of a heat record for September. The value was measured in Andalucia. Temperatures are expected to remain unusually high in the coming days.
A temperature of 45.7°C was measured on Thursday in El Granado, in the south-western tip of Spain, equaling the temperature record ever recorded for September in the popular tourist region of Andalusia and also setting the highest temperature recorded since the beginning of this year in the Iberian country, announced Friday the meteorological agency AEMET, quoted by ...
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The previous record of 45.7 degrees Celsius was recorded in Montoro, also in Andalusia, on September 6, 2016. The post Spain: Record-breaking temperature in Andalusia – Over 45 degrees Celsius appeared first on in.gr.
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