SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 9 Jan. (EUROPA PRESS) –
In 2022, the Canary Islands registered the fourth warmest year since 1961, with an average temperature of 19.1ºC, which represents a thermal anomaly of 0.8ºC and a very warm character, the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) reports this Monday. .
The average value of accumulated precipitation was 308.6 liters per square meter, a normal value, which represents 106% of the expected average precipitation and makes 2022 the twenty-third wettest year since 1961.
The Aemet highlights two heat waves as notable milestones, one between July 9 and 11, the second warmest since 1971 –the warmest in history was in 2022– and another between July 24 and 26. month.
It also emphasizes the tropical storm ‘Hermine’, which occurred between September 25 and 27, which left this month as the wettest since 1961 with 107.5 liters per square meter of average precipitation, far from the second wettest September in the series. , which was the one from 1967 with just over 38 liters.
During September 2022, 500% of the expected average precipitation was exceeded, which gave it an ‘extremely humid’ character.
At the national level, last December 2022 has been the twelfth warmest month of the year in Spain since 1961, with a temperature of almost 3 degrees Celsius more than the average for that thirty (2.9ºC) and ended as the fourth warmest humid in the country as a whole in this century.
Thus, December 2022 exceeded the same month in 1989 by 0.2 degrees Celsius, which until now was the warmest, since it had an average temperature of 9.5ºC.
By areas, December was extremely warm in most of the south and east of the Peninsula, while it was very warm in the rest of mainland Spain.
Regarding the archipelagos, the month was extremely warm in the Balearic Islands, with an average of 14ºC, which is 2.8ºC above the normal value for that month; the same as in the Canary Islands, where the average monthly temperature reached 17.5ºC, which represents a positive anomaly of 1.7ºC.
The areas with the greatest thermal difference with respect to the normal values for the period 1981-2010, of almost 3ºC, occurred in large areas of the interior of Galicia, Castilla y León, the Basque Country, Extremadura, the south of the Community of Madrid, Castilla- La Mancha, central Andalusia, inland Region of Murcia and the Valencian Community, southern Aragon, inland Catalonia and specific areas of the Balearic Islands, which reached values close to +4°C in some points of these regions .
The daily maximums were about 2.5ºC above normal, and the minimums were 3.4ºC above the average, so that the daily thermal oscillation was 1.1 ºC lower than normal.
The AEMET monthly report highlights that 27 main stations reached an average temperature record for the month of December since the data observations began. In addition, in nine stations, the average of the daily maximums was the highest in the December series, and in six, the average of the daily minimums was also the highest in the December series.
In four main stations the highest temperature was recorded and in fourteen the highest minimum temperature of a month of December since records exist.
THE WETEST FOURTH OF THE CENTURY
Regarding rainfall, December 2022 will remain in the records as a wet month, since 43 percent more rain than normal values has been collected. Thus, in the whole of the Peninsula, 117.5 liters per square meter were accumulated, which places it as the twelfth wettest month of December since the beginning of the series in 1961 and the fourth wettest so far this century. XXI.
By areas, December has been very humid in almost the entire Peninsula, although it became extremely humid in parts of Extremadura and the Community of Madrid, as well as the western Canary Islands. However, it was between normal and dry on the Cantabrian coast, northeastern Catalonia and the eastern peninsula, as well as the Balearic archipelago and the eastern Canary Islands.
Also in terms of rainfall, records of maximum daily accumulation have been recorded for a month of December. Thus, anniversaries have taken place in six observatories, such as the one in Pontevedra, where the 102 liters per square meter collected on the 19th or the 72.8 liters per square meter in La Coruña on the 23rd stand out, a record for the Herculean capital , which collects data from 1930.
