SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 19 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) forecasts, with a probability of 70% or more, that this summer will be warmer than normal and one of the hottest in recent years in the Canary Islands, according to the spring weather balance made public this Monday by the Government sub-delegate, Javier Plata, and the director of the AEMET Meteorological Center in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Víctor Quintero.
As regards spring, it has been verified that the March-April-May quarter has been the warmest since 1961, with an average temperature of 19.6ºC in the province of Las Palmas –thermal anomaly of 1.8ºC– and 17 .1ºC in Santa Cruz de Tenerife –+2ºC–.
There have been very warm temperatures in practically all areas of the archipelago and compared to March and April, the warmest since 1961, May has been the eleventh warmest since that year.
Thus, records were broken in Arona (Tenerife), with 37.5ºC on March 31, in Mogán (Gran Canaria), with 37.1ºC the day before and in Los Llanos de Aridane (La Palma), which reached 36, 5ºC, also on the 31st.
The Aemet also specifies that the first spring has been the driest since 1961 –especially in the northeast of Tenerife– with 21% of normal precipitation and 11 liters per square meter that correspond to 4.5 liters in the eastern province. and 18.9 in the western.