MADRID, 7 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Last night, a prelude to the heat wave that the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) has predicted for this week, has been marked by thermal contrasts, which leave just 1.9 degrees Celsius (ºC) in Cap de Vaqueira ( Lérida) at 02:10 a.m. at 34.5ºC that the mercury marked at 12:00 p.m. in Albuquerque (Badajoz).
According to the data observed by the AEMET meteorological stations, the night was especially hot in Extremadura and Andalusia, where more than torrid values ??were reached in the early hours of the morning. Specifically, in addition to the data from Albuquerque, 33.4ºC was reached after midnight in Villanueva del Fresno (Badajoz); 33ºC in Montoro (Córdoba); 32.7ºC at Seville airport and Fuente de Cantos; 32.6ºC in Zorita (Badajoz); 32.5ºC in Carmona (Seville) and 32.4ºC in the towns of Jerez de los Caballeros and Castuera, in Badajoz, as well as in Linares (Jaén).
For its part, the thermometer dropped last morning to 3.8ºC in Reinosa (Cantabria); at 4.1ºC in Palacios de la Sierra (Burgos); at 4.4ºC in Sanabria (Zamora). In San Pedro Manrique and in Ucero, in Soria, at around 7 in the morning the thermometer stood at 4.5ºC and at the same time in Cap de Rec (Lérida) it dropped to 5ºC. In Riaño (León) and Puerto del Pico (Ávila) the minimum temperature tonight was 5.2ºC and one tenth more, 5.3ºC was reached in Benasque (Huesca).
The maximum this Sunday reached 44.1ºC in Tablada (Seville), 43.3ºC in Montoro (Córdoba); 43.3 in Carmona (Seville) and Villarasa (Huelva) and 43.2ºC in Badajoz.
The AEMET has warned of the start of a heat wave this Monday, when it predicts that temperatures will rise throughout Spain except in the Mediterranean area, where they will drop. The escalation of the thermometers will continue on Tuesday and Wednesday. Specifically on Tuesday the rise will be especially significant in the northern half.
In general terms, it will be likely to reach 40 to 42ºC in large areas of the peninsular southwest quadrant and 36 to 40ºC on Tuesday in large areas of the northern half, especially in the northwest quadrant and that will affect Galicia and the interior of the Cantabrian Sea, where up to now the summer has been relatively cool.
