SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, December 13. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Canary Islands have recorded the warmest month of November since there are historical records with an average of 20ºC, 2.2 degrees above usual, according to the report carried out by the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) dependent on the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) and made public this Wednesday.
In mainland Spain the average temperature was 11.5 ºC, 2 ºC warmer than normal, and it was the second November with the highest average temperature, tied with 2006 and only behind 1983, while in the Balearic Islands the values were reached. 15.7ºC, 1.6ºC above usual.
In November, the prolonged warm episode stood out that lasted between the 11th and the 20th, with both maximum and minimum temperatures well above normal, and there was another warm episode at the end of the month, between the 28th and the 30th.
In the rest of the month, temperatures were close to normal values, except for a brief cold episode that was observed during days 6 to 8, in which the maximum and minimum values were below the usual values for the season. year, Aemet details in a note.
In 12 main stations the monthly average temperature was the highest for a month of November since records have been kept.
Likewise, in fourteen main stations the average maximum was the highest in November, and in eight the average minimum was the highest for a November month since the beginning of the respective series.
The highest temperatures corresponded to Tenerife South/airport, where 33.7 °C was recorded on the 15th, Hierro/airport, with 32.4 °C also on the 15th, Lanzarote/airport, with 31.9 °C on the day 13, and Gran Canaria/airport, where 31.6 °C was measured on the 15th.
Regarding the minimum temperatures, the -6.2 °C of Molina de Aragón measured on the 26th, the -4.7 °C of Salamanca/airport on the 24th, the -4.5 °C of Teruel also on the 24th, and the 3.7 °C recorded in Puerto de Navacerrada on the 7th.
Regarding rainfall, the month of November was normal in terms of rainfall, with a value over peninsular Spain of 71.1 liters per square meter, that is, 91% of the average for the period 1991-2020.
However, there were large differences in accumulated precipitation depending on geographic areas.
Thus, November was between normal and humid in the western half of the Peninsula, becoming very humid in the south of Galicia and west of León, and in the Navarrese and Aragonese Pyrenees.
On the contrary, it was dry in the eastern half of the Peninsula, in Andalusia and in both archipelagos, becoming extremely dry in the southeast of Andalusia and on the island of Ibiza.
DRY MONTH IN PRECIPITATION
In the Balearic Islands it was the fourth driest November since the beginning of the series and the second in the 21st century, behind 2006, and in the Canary Islands it was a dry month.
In Galicia, at the Vigo station/airport, 449.5 liters per square meter of rain was reached throughout the month and 332.2 was reached at Santiago de Compostela/airport.
In Euskadi, Hondarribia/Malkarroa accumulated 381.9 and Donostia/San Sebastián recorded 322.
However, in the Mediterranean area and Andalusia there were observatories of the main network in which no rain was recorded, in the case of Malaga and Murcia, but in large areas of the rest of southern Andalusia and the Region of Murcia, in Ibiza, Comunitat Valenciana and Points in the provinces of Tarragona and Barcelona, rainfall was less than 5 liters per square meter.
The highest daily rainfall recorded corresponded to observatories in the western half of the peninsula, the eastern Cantabrian Sea and the central area, such that Cáceres recorded 63.2 liters on the 30th; Vigo/airport 63.2; Santiago de Compostela/airport 56.6; Hondarribia/Malkarroa 54.5 again on day 1; Guadalajara with 53.8, a value that is the highest in its series since 2011; Getafe which registered 52.4; Madrid/Cuatro Vientos with 52.1 and Madrid/airport with 59.9 on the 30th.
The first two constitute the highest values in their series since 1951 and 1945, respectively.
