Madrid (EFE).- The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) forecasts that this summer will most likely be warmer than normal in the Peninsula, the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands, and that the rains that fall will not be enough to alleviate the situation of drought that Spain suffers, has advanced its spokesman, Rubén del Campo.
The prediction for June, July and August indicates that with a “very high probability”, greater than 70%, the summer will be warmer throughout Spain.
“We do not know if it will be a summer as extreme in terms of high temperatures as last year, which was the warmest in the historical series, but there is between a 50 and 70% probability that it is a summer very warm, that is, that it is among the 20% of the hottest summers of the last three decades”, Del Campo stressed in an audio statement.
Regarding rainfall, the trend shown in the prediction models is not very clear and it cannot be ruled out that, especially in June, storms may make an appearance.
In any case, “it does not seem that the rains that will fall during the summer will be enough, far from it, to alleviate the situation of meteorological drought that Spain is suffering from,” warned the Aemet spokesman.
According to the expert, to find out if it rains enough to alleviate the water shortage, we will have to wait until autumn and how it arrives in terms of rainfall, “because right now it is impossible to know.”