This Sunday, August 3, the first heat wave in August has officially begun, the second so far in summer. The truth is that most of those who suffer from it will ask the same question: when it ends. The Spanish Meteorology Agency (Aemet) does not have good news.
The agency has updated its forecast on how long the heat wave will last from August 3. In the beginning it was expected that the high temperatures that the entire territory will begin to moderate from Thursday, August 7.
However, in the update of the special warning per heat wave that the Aemet has sent this Sunday at noon, the agency makes a slight change to what is expected of this week. It maintains that from Thursday 7 “uncertainty increases”, because that day temperatures “probably keep rising.”
The new scenario: how long will the heat wave last
The temperatures are expected to rise on Thursday “more likely in the Eastern Peninsular Third.” But the Aemet clarifies now that “with the current information” the most plausible scenario will be that on Friday the temperatures “descend in the Cantabrian but that they rise again in the west peninsular.”
Therefore, “this heat wave episode would remain at least until next weekend”, which puts the new deadline for extreme heat in Spain until Sunday, August 10.
The Aemet also remembers that these days will be exceeded 38 degrees Celsius in much of the interior of the southern peninsular half, in depressions of the northeast and northern plateau, without ruling them either in southern Galicia, Eastern Cantabrian and Interior of the Balearic Islands.
In addition, it is possible that the areas where the 42º C are exceeded are “more extensive” in the areas of Guadalquivir and Guadiana than in the previous days. The temperature peak will be lived almost security on Tuesday, but it seems that in Spain there will be heat wave for a while.