SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Sep 6 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Canary Islands have registered a warm August with an average temperature of 23.2ºC, which included a heat wave in the second fortnight, unprecedented since 2015, and maintained maximum temperatures above the 95th percentile for four or five consecutive days, according to the Aemet Climatological Advance made public this Monday.
The precipitations, caused by the trade wind, with the intervention of some not very pronounced trough, were scarce in absolute terms and restricted to the northern midlands, as corresponds to the month of August, which confirms for now a dry hydrological year, with 82 % of expected precipitation.
In addition, it has been the sunniest month of August since 2012 and with three haze intrusions.
As for the wind, it blew with less force in the most western islands, although its western and southern slopes were not exempt from hillside storms, as it happened in the rest of the islands of greater relief.
