On May 31, the weather spring ends, and will do so with a radical turn over time. After several months marked by rains, storms and lack of heat, Spain now prepares an episode of abnormally high temperatures, more typical of full summer.
According to Samuel Biener, expert of Meteored (Tiempo.com), the forecasts for the month of June are overwhelming: temperatures could be well above normal values, especially during the first fortnight.
In areas like Extremadura, northern Andalusia, Castilla-La Mancha, Community of Madrid, the interior of the east and southern Castilla y Leónthey could overcome in 3 to 6 ºC The usual mean for these dates.
In the rest of the Peninsula, temperatures between 1 and 3ºC are expected above normal, while in the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands, the warm anomalies would be more moderate, between 0.5 and 1 ° C above the average.
A second half of the month also warm
Looking ahead to the second half of June, Biener points out that maps suggest that temperatures could remain high, standing Between 1 and 3ºC above the average records throughout the Peninsula and Balearic Islandswith more marked anomalies in some areas of the interior.
As for rainfall, trends indicate that The first fortnight will be more dry than usual in much of the country, except in areas of the north and east interior. For the second half of the month, the expert indicates that a clear trend is not observed, although the maps suggest the presence of a polar jet with small undulations It could favor the formation of storms in some areas. In the Western Islands of the Canary Islands, light wet anomalies are expected.
How is the month of June
In the month of June, the average temperature rises between 5 and 7ºC compared to May in the peninsular, while in coastal areas and archipelagos the increase is more moderate due to marine breezes. And remember that in recent years there have already been several heat waves this month.
In terms of rainfall, Biener indicates that rains are usually scarce and very irregular in the south and islands, while in the north and the mountain ranges are more abundant due to the strong storms typical of the time. In some areas of the Pyrenees it is common to exceed 100 liters per square meter during the month. Interestingly, June is one of the wettest months of the year in certain sectors of the Pyrenees and the southern Iberian.