It’s official: July was the hottest month recorded in Spain since records began

SPAIN suffered its hottest July in more than six decades, confirmed the national meteorological office on Monday.

Data published by AEMET showed that the average temperature across Spain during July was 25.6ºC a whopping 2.7ºC higher than the average from records dating back to 1961.

Julio de 2022 ha sido extremadamente cálido en España, el más cálido desde al menos 1961, con una temperatura media de 25.6 ºC, que supera en 2.7 ºC al promedio normal y es 0.2 ºC superior a la de julio de 2015, que hasta ahora era el mes de julio más cálido. pic.twitter.com/XKdPMBymL8

— AEMET (@AEMET_Esp) August 8, 2022

The highest temperature in July was recorded in Andalucia in the town of Moron de la Frontera where mercury hit 46ºC on July 24 during the second official heatwave of the summer.

That heatwave, which sizzled Spain from July 9 until July 26 was described as ” the most intense, the most extensive and the second longest” ever recorded in Spain.

Aemet analysis also revealed that this year the months of May, June and July have been the warmest on record surpassing even the average temperature for the June/July/August.

It warned that this could herald the early arrival of summer as a norm.

El bimestre junio-julio de 2022 también es el más cálido de la serie, por encima de 2015 y 2017. En este caso, hasta 2015 no se había superado nunca la barrera de los 23 ºC de temperatura media y, desde entonces, se ha superado en tres ocasiones (el propio 2015, en 2017 y 2022) pic.twitter.com/UFxYJvEdRs

— AEMET (@AEMET_Esp) August 8, 2022

It has also been one of the driest months of July with the least rainfall in the last 15 years.

As a result of this extreme heat and drought, Spain has set to suffer its worst year of wildfires on record.

According to the European Forest Fire Information System some 240,000 hectares had already been scorched in more than 370 blazes by the end of July.

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