Madrid (EFE) give rise to the “first heat wave of this summer”.
During this weekend and the beginning of the next one, the intense heat is expected to continue, which could lead to the first heat wave of the summer, as long as the thresholds of “necessary intensity, duration and extension” are exceeded, in an episode of this type, has advanced Rubén Del Campo, spokesman for Aemet.
From the end of this week and the beginning of the next “the thermal rise will continue with very warm days in practically the entire country” exceeding 35 degrees and 40 degrees in cities like Madrid and up to 45 degrees in the Tagus, Guadiana and Guadalquivir valleys.
If this situation is confirmed -added Del Campo- the temperatures would be between “5 and 10 above normal” for this time of year in the west and center of the peninsula and in areas of the Mediterranean.
At night, the high temperatures will persist, giving rise to tropical nights and even in some parts of the Andalusian Mediterranean and inland Andalusia and Extremadura it may not drop below 25 degrees (torrid nights), the spokesman concluded.
According to Aemet, a heat wave is an episode of at least three consecutive days, in which 10% of the weather stations register values above the threshold temperature, corresponding to the 95% percentile of their July daily maximum series. and August in the period 1971-2000.