Thermometers in Mérida have registered a maximum temperature of 42.7 degrees this Sunday at 4:30 p.m., the highest in the country, with six Andalusian municipalities and four from Extremadura on the list of the ten hottest Spanish towns.
Next to Mérida is Almonte (Huelva), where the mercury has marked 42.6 degrees at four in the afternoon, followed by another Huelva town, El Granado, with 41.8 degrees, the same temperature recorded in Jerez de los Caballeros (Badajoz).
The municipalities of Andújar (Jaén), Fuentes de Andalucía and Écija (Seville), Don Benito and Barcarrota (Badajoz), and Aroche (Huelva), with a maximum of between 41.8 and 41.3 degrees, complete the list, according to data of the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET).
The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) announces for tomorrow, Monday, “significantly high” temperatures in the southern and northeastern half of the peninsula, especially in the valleys of large rivers, although they will drop in the north and east of the peninsula, and locally strong storms in southern Iberia and in the eastern Pyrenees.
The sky will be slightly cloudy in almost the entire country, except in the Cantabrian area and northern Galicia, where there will be low clouds and light rain, and in the upper Ebro; although the formation of evolutionary clouds is expected in the eastern half of the peninsula and in the southwestern mountains, where there may be scattered showers and storms.
Morning mists and fog banks are also likely in much of the interior of the extreme north of the peninsula.
ESTREMADURA
Temperatures will experience little change; They will exceed 40 degrees in general. The nights will be warm, with minimum values around 22 degrees. Variable light wind, with a tendency to establish the western component in the afternoon. In the event of stormy phenomena, very strong gusts may be recorded.