Last August the weather situation was somewhat atypical. In Spain, records were registered in terms of temperature and maximum rainfall in several provinces, as confirmed by José Antonio Maldonado, director of the website www.eltiempo.es.
In many areas of the Peninsula, in the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands, there were quite a few days in whichthe thermometers showed very high valueslast August, which determined that some of them exceeded those previously registered in different observatories and that thirty deserved the qualification of“extremely warm”in eight provincial capitals: Cáceres, Badajoz, Jaén, Huelva, Seville, Cádiz, Córdoba and Málaga.
Due to the number of days in which there was significant rainfall, it cannot be said that August was especially rainy, but there were days in which the showers were intense. Specifically, on the 16th they were especially strong or very strong in areas of Andalusia, Extremadura, Castilla La Mancha and the Community of Murcia, with the Cordovan countryside being the most affected area, where more than 200 mm were collected in the municipality of Aguilar de la Frontera ( above 100 in an hour), 135 in Bujalance and 117 in Montilla.
Some of the records recorded were the following:
Absolute maximum temperatures
Zaragoza: 42.8ºC (day 26). The previous one was 42.4ºC
Barcelona: 37.4ºC (day 27). The previous one was 37.3ºC
Tarragona: 38ºC (day 27). The previous one was 37.2ºC
Valencia: 43ºC (day 27). The previous one was 42.5ºC
Ceuta: 38.5ºC (day28). The previous one was 35.3ºC
Las Palmas (airport): 39ºC (day 12). The previous one was 38.6ºC
Average monthly temperatures
Cáceres: 28.3ºC. The previous one was 28.1ºC
Huelva: 28ºC. The previous one was 27.4ºC
Seville (airport): 30.6ºC. The previous one was 29.9ºC
Ceuta: 26.1 ° C. The previous one was 25.6ºC
Maximum rainfall in a day
Cuenca: 68.3mm (day 13). The old one was 39.2mm
Albacete: 69.9mm (day 19). The old one was 48mm
Murcia: 47.9mm (day 13). The old one was 40mm
Maximum gusts of wind
Ceuta: 87 km / h (day 12). The previous one was 66 km / h
Las Palmas (airport): 82 km / h. The previous one was 80 km / h
