The Spanish Meteorology Agency (Aemet) had been announcing it for days and is now about to make it official: throughout this Thursday it will launch a special notice per heat wave. It will be the first heat wave of the month of August, when Spain tries to breathe under the usual cannula of these dates.
This special notice, which still has to materialize, will be dictated from Sunday and will run until next Wednesday. Thus, it is expected that the first heat wave of August will last from day 3 to day 6. It will be four days in which the temperatures will touch maximum 40 or more degrees Celsius.
Faced with the intermittent thermal breaths that the Iberian Peninsula has been able to enjoy in recent weeks thanks to cold air masses that have left temperatures below the usual for these dates, the most extreme heat will return this Sunday.
It will do it due to precisely the opposite: hot air masses that will leave anomalous temperatures above what are usually seen by these dates. Thus, August begins with a heat wave that will cause precautions to be extreme throughout the country.
Precisely the heat waves made last June the warmest in their historical series. The AEMET now warns for the first days of August of temperatures of more than 40 degrees “in large areas of the central and southern peninsular”.
In addition, the notice, which still has to formalize, abounds that the intense heat will arrive this weekend to most of Spain and it is likely to persist for several days.