Only at the weekend we informed about a new Spanish all-time temperature record (+47,4°C) measured in Montoro, Anladusia /https://mkweather.com/montoro-spain-474c-all-time-national-record-madrid-the-hottest-day-in-history-427c//.
Heatwave in Spain brought many temperature records /some are mentioned in the link above/ and across Iberia have started to burn many wildfires /https://mkweather.com/wildfires-already-in-jerusalem-israel-near-the-death-sea-was-measured-471c-before-a-week-fires-are-threatening-greece-and-spain-too//, similarly such as across all Mediterranean.
While hottest was Saturday, with +47,4°C in Montoro, Sunday, 15. August brought the next surprises – mainly all-time temperature record in Murcia (Alcantarilla), +47,0°C!
On Monday was extremely hot air from Sahara shifted even above the Canary Islands, and in La Aldea de San Nicolás, +45,6°C was measured.
In neighboring Morocco, the all-time August record was broken (+49,1°C – the next Mkweather article).
The worst wildfires are at the start of the week reported from central Spain.
Meanwhile, forecasts for the rest of Europe have become little colder thanks to the severe cold front with extremely strong storms, regionally /https://mkweather.com/central-europe-scandinavia-the-baltic-region-and-eastern-europe-with-severe-storms-from-monday-to-wednesday-16-18-8//.
In Italy, Balkan, Greece, and Turkey, however, before the arrival of the cold front, temperatures are reaching a few degrees above +40°C in some cases.
For a recapitulation – Turkey (+49,1°C), Italy (+48,8°C) and Spain (+47,4°C) are with new national temperature records, Italy with a possible new European record and in Greece (+47,1°C), only 0,9°C below all-time record was measured during heatwaves in the last weeks /https://mkweather.com/all-time-record-in-turkey-491c-the-heatwave-is-deadly/; https://mkweather.com/siracusa-italy-488c-european-all-time-temperature-record-was-broken/; https://mkweather.com/montoro-spain-474c-all-time-national-record-madrid-the-hottest-day-in-history-427c/; https://mkweather.com/greece-471c-only-09c-below-european-record-north-macedonia-441c-bulgaria-425c-and-tirana-albania-422c-all-time-record-while-wildfires-are-raging-across-all-mediterranean//.
Source: ogimet.com
