Canaries is experiencing a fall 2022 characterized by presenting values of upper temperature normal, a fact that will continue during the beginning of 2023.
The director of the Meteorological Center of the Meteorology Statal Agency (AEMET) in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Victor Quinterohas detailed in a press conference that the quarter from September to November 2022 has been “warm or even very warm, but with anomalies”.
As Quintero has pointed out, until the beginning of October the weather in the archipelago resulted in “a normal situation, with cold episodes in the north of the westernmost islands and some warm in the rest of the areas, which have left an anomaly of 0.9 degrees”.
Since the beginning of October, the values have been above normal: “These two months have caused the entire quarter to be warm or very warm”, with a average temperature of 20.8 degrees.
In December, the thermal values have continued this trend, being warmer than normalhe.
Regarding rainfall, the autumn has been very humid, especially in the month of September due to the passage of the hermine stormwhich raised the rains by a 500% more with respect to the standard figures.
In that sense, during this tropical depression, “the 49% of weather stations (116 of 238 total) beat record maximum rainfall in one day”, pointed out the director of the AEMET.
In contrast, October was a “dry” period, November “very dry” and December is “below values normal rains”.
Regarding other values such as storm activity, Quintero pointed out that last autumn it was “below normal”, as was cloudiness, this quarter having been “the less cloudy since 2004″.
Finally, regarding the haze, there have been five episodes important between January and November 2022.
Although these data are similar in the two canary provincesLas Palmas has registered a time “slightly warmer and more humid than Santa Cruz de Tenerife”.
Quintero has also outlined that during the first months of winter this season will be perpetuated “thermal anomaly” started in autumn, with a temperature variation that will be “around one degree until the first days of January”.
For his part, for the Christmas period, the member of the AEMET has indicated that there is “almost 100% certainty that a Dana will affect to the islands”, leaving locally strong rainfall between the afternoon of the 25th and the 28th, “rains that may continue, already in fpattern of showersat the beginning of 2023″.
With his sights set on the months of January and February, the professional stressed that “any situation can occur, all of them having almost the same probability of occurrence.” It can be a quarter warmer than usualless or presenting normal values.
However, the probability is that “these months will be normal or even a little more humid than usual. The rarest thing would be for it to be a dry period”, since “it is expected to rain as usual in the season of early winter“, concluded Quintero
