Oviedo (EFE).- The hottest and driest spring in Asturias since 1961 will give way to a warm summer that will have the same chances of being humid, normal or dry in terms of rainfall.
This was pointed out this Tuesday by the delegate in Asturias of the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet), Ángel J. Gómez Peláez, who has taken stock of the spring months and has offered an advance of the prediction for the summer.
“The climate in Asturias has changed in terms of temperatures, which in the last sixty years have risen by one and a half degrees,” he said of the consequences of the climate crisis, after noting, however, that “they do not appreciate still significant trends” of change in terms of rainfall.
Summer in Asturias has a 50 percent probability of being warm, 30 percent of being normal, and 20 percent of being cold, while there is the same probability scenario (33%) that it is humid, normal, or dry in terms of rain.
The predictions indicate that tomorrow, Wednesday, and Thursday the situation will improve -except in the Cordillera where showers are expected- and temperatures will rise, but from Friday bad weather will arrive, with significant rainfall.
For the next three weeks, Aemet forecasts temperatures to be higher than normal and rainfall normal for the time of year.
The hottest and driest spring since 1961
Spring has been the warmest in Asturias since 1961, with 1.7 degrees above normal, after March and April were very warm (2.3 degrees above usual) and warm May (0.5 degrees above normal).
“The temperatures have been almost all the time higher than normal, except for twelve days in May”, specified the Aemet delegate.
The maximum value was registered on May 3 in Amieva (32.7 degrees), while the minimum was -9.9 degrees on March 2 in Leitariegos.
The Principality has also had the driest spring since 1961, after a very dry March and April (with 74 and 63 percent, respectively, less rain than normal) and a dry May (with 27 percent less).
The hydrological year, the time series of accumulated precipitation between October and May, reveals that in Asturias there is a rainfall deficit of 29 percent for this entire period after a very dry autumn, a normal winter and an extremely dry spring.
March, April and May, sunnier
This spring has been sunnier than normal in the community, according to the measurement stations in Oviedo and the Asturias airport.
The storm activity was concentrated in May, especially on the 28th, when half of all the discharges of the station occurred. EFE