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MADRID (AP) — Spain’s weather firm says unusual high temperatures are expected to continue in many parts of the country over the weekend. The heatwave has given an almost summer-like feel to many coastal areas, as other people head to the beaches to sunbathe or swim. winter.
The country’s AEMET weather agency said the high temperatures affecting southern Europe are due to an anticyclone carrying a hot air mass from further south. It said that the lack of cloud cover also led to increased temperatures.
Last week, Spain and other parts of Europe were hit by bloodless and bitter torrential rains, which followed freezing and snowy temperatures in many parts of Spain.
Many localities reached the temperatures typical of this time of year in more than 20 years last week, said AEMET spokesman Marcelino Núñez. On Thursday, the inland town of Chelva recorded a temperature of 29. 6 degrees Celsius, he said.
Lows and temperatures average between five and 10 degrees Celsius (9 to 18 degrees Fahrenheit) above normal, the firm said.
The good weather resulted in crowded beaches from the southwest of Cadiz to the northeast of Barcelona, scenarios related to the summer months.
Núñez said it’s impossible to attribute existing maximum temperatures to the climate crisis without conducting studies, but they are following a trend toward increasingly common periods of unusually high temperatures that experts associate with climate change.
“What’s transparent is that the weather estimates, the long-term weather projections, for the last 20 years, imply that these phenomena are going to happen more and more, and we’re seeing that little by little,” he said. -Declares.
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