The ‘final firework’ of heat arrives in Spain: what it is and when temperatures drop throughout the country – Onda Cero

The heat, which will again reach 40 degrees in the south this Thursday, puts 11 communities on alert and activates the orange level (significant risk) in the provinces of Jaén, Zaragoza and Vizcaya, while the storms that are reduced to the southwestern area of ​​Asturias. According to the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) on its website, the orange alert in Jaén is for maximums of up to 40 degrees in the Sierra de Cazorla and in the Segura valley and has also been activated on the Zaragoza bank of the Ebro, where it is expected to reach 39 degrees, and in the interior of Vizcaya, which will be around 38 degrees. What does the ‘final heat’ mean and when do temperatures drop? This is the ‘final firework’ of the heat in Spain. This is what the Aemet calls this phenomenon, which is so called because the temperatures rise one last time before taking a breather: starting next Sunday, with the arrival of troughs, the thermometers will plummet in most of the country, except in the east and the Balearic Islands. In fact, it is expected that, during the first half of next week, in the west of the Peninsula it will be cooler than normal at this time, as explained by Rubén del Campo, spokesman for the Aemet, who added in the thirds south and east and in the Balearic Islands the drop in temperatures will take longer to be noticed. A historic summer with three heat waves High temperatures have settled in our country since the beginning of June. As reported by Aemet, the first heat wave was very early: it began on June 11, lasted eight days, affected 38 provinces and had an anomaly of 3.2 degrees. The anomaly is part of a method that the Aemet uses to measure the intensity of a heat wave and that we explain here. On the other hand, the second heat wave was “extraordinary” as it passed from June 9 to 26, being the second longest to date and showing an anomaly of 4.8 degrees (pulverizing the record of the one that occurred in August 2018 with an anomaly of 4.1). Thus, between the months of June and July, there are 26 days in which Spain has suffered heat waves, making it the second summer with the most days in this situation, only surpassed by 2015, which had 29 days in a similar context. The Aemet has yet to catalog the last heat episode, from July 30 to August 14 or 15, and the record with the most heat wave days in our country could be broken. Extreme heat this Thursday This Thursday, in Andalusia it is expected that a maximum of 39 degrees will also be reached in the provinces of Córdoba, Granada and in the Guadalquivir valley in Jaén, while in Aragón it is possible that today they will not fall below 35 degrees throughout the community and that the same happens in the Basque Country. In the Balearic Islands the yellow alert (risk) is due to maximums of 36 to 37 degrees on the island of Mallorca, the same temperature that is announced in Castilla y León, while in Castilla-La Mancha the thermometers drop a little and this Thursday they will be among the 34 degrees expected in the Cuenca mountains and 38 in the Tagus valley, in the province of Toledo. In Catalonia, Extremadura, the Community of Madrid, Navarra and La Rioja, the yellow alert has been activated due to maximum temperatures that will range between the 34 degrees expected in the Navarrese Pyrenees and the 38 that will be reached at points in the provinces of Cáceres and Badajoz and on the riverbank. del Ebro. As for storms, this Thursday the alert is reduced to the west of Asturias where the yellow level has been activated for this reason.