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In July 2022, another temperature record was broken in Spain. The Spanish city of Ourense again broke the heat record, reaching an air temperature of + 44.
Thus, the previous historical maximum set earlier at + 43.3 was broken.
At the same time, the heat in the region broke the temperature record achieved in 2018, when the temperature reached + 42.
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Air temperature rise
2022: New Temperature Record: 47,6ºC
Spain recorded the new highest temperature.
In August 2022, La Rambla meteorological station near Córdoba recorded a new 47,6ºC air temperature record. The station is located near last year's Montoro station record holder, which recorded 47,4ºC temperatures around the same time in 2021.
Although La Rambla is officially considered the hottest place in Spain, many other regions have broken their own records, including Madrid's Barajas Airport, which recorded a maximum of 42,5ºC on Saturday.
High daytime temperatures were accompanied by tropical and equatorial nights, when Olver (Cadiz) had a minimum 30,8ºC temperature, and Cazorla (Jaen) had a minimum 29ºC in recent days.
2015 was the hottest year in Spain
The Spanish meteorological agency AEMET called 2015 the hottest year on record. Prior to that, 2011 was considered the hottest[1].
Agency spokesman Antonio Mestre said December 2015 was "extremely warm." The average air temperature was 2 degrees higher than normal.
As for the average annual temperature, in 2015 in Spain it was 16 degrees - almost a degree above normal. "We are talking about the warmest year in the historical series," Mestre told the Europa Press news agency.
The heat peaked on July 6 and 7. These days, in some areas of Spain, thermometers showed 45 degrees. The residents of Cordoba and Zaragoza felt the most abnormal heat.
Fires
2022: Spain leads EU in number of hectares of forest burned
In total, in Spain in 2022, as of September, the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), 293,155 hectares burned down.
The situation in 2022 is very serious. The figure means 0.58% of Spain's territory has been wiped out. This is four times the average number of hectares burned out over the past decade (69,331). At the same time, according to estimates of the European system, this year there were 411 fires on an area of 30 or more hectares. It is also a record in data recorded since 2008.
2022 has already become the year of the largest area of fires in Spain. However, we can also look at the percentage of hectares burned out relative to the size of the country:
Data from the Ministry of Environmental Transition and Demographic Issues (MITECO) shows 252,690 hectares had been burned by August 28, up from 74,260 hectares in the same period in 2021.
The 2022 figures are the highest in ten years. In addition, they broke the record set in 2012, when 189,943 hectares were burned in the same time of year. According to MITECO data, 2018, when 19,782 hectares were burned, was the year with the lowest burnout area in that decade in the same period.
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