Spain logs hottest April on record. AEMET described April as “extremely warm”, noting it was 3.2C above the 1991-2020 average.
Source: Wagamaga
Spain logs hottest April on record. AEMET described April as “extremely warm”, noting it was 3.2C above the 1991-2020 average.
Source: Wagamaga
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Spain logged its hottest April since records began in 1961 with an average temperature of 15.1C last month, national weather agency AEMET said.
The previous record was set in 2023 at 15C, the agency said in a social media post late on Monday.
Spain is considered a frontline region for climate change, experiencing increasingly long heatwaves that sometimes start before summer, along with more frequent episodes of intense rainfall.
AEMET described April as “extremely warm”, noting it was 3.2C above the 1991-2020 average. Six days in April set new daily heat records, it added.
Spain experienced multiple wildfires in April, mainly in the north, linked to dry weather and unusually warm temperatures.
The warm April followed Spain’s wettest January and February in 47 years.