A historic heat wave hit the Iberian Peninsula this weekend with temperatures exceeding 32°, the Spanish National Meteorological Agency (Aemet) announced on Monday.
“On October 1, 2023, a historic heat record was broken across almost the entire territory of the Iberian Peninsula,” Aemet said on X, the former Twitter.
The highest temperature was recorded this Sunday in the town of Montoro, near Cordoba (south), at 38.2°, surpassing the previous record set in 2014 for a month of October in Marbella (south): 37.5°, according to Aemet .
“These temperatures have already broken three records (September 29 and 30 and October 1),” the National Weather Service argued.
“But the most extraordinary thing is that this heat, unusual for this period, will continue: we could break records for another ten days,” she warned.
The weather authorities of Spain and Portugal announced that the Iberian Peninsula will enter autumn with unusually high temperatures for this time of year, sometimes exceeding 35 °C, starting last Friday.
Although these temperatures are not comparable to the heat waves that hit the country in the hottest months, “the predicted values correspond to anomalies of up to about 5-8°C above the usual averages of the season,” explained the Portuguese Institute of Ocean and Atmosphere (IPMA).