The water temperature on the coasts of spain reached an all-time high for this time, reported the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet). According to Aemet readings in the Spanish coastal areas, the sea temperature reached an average of 24.6 °C in mid-July, some 2.2 degrees higher than normal for the season.
The figure “far exceeds the records of the two previously warmest years”, 2015 (24 °C) and 2022 (23.7 °C) and has no “precedent for mid-July in the entire historical series” that started in 1940indicated the Aemet on Twitter.
This situation, in a context of global warming of the oceans, is even more worrying since summer is far from over, according to an Aemet spokesperson, Ruben del Campo.
“There is still some way to go for the sea to continue to warm up more”, both in the Mediterranean and in the Atlantic, said the spokesman, who specified that temperatures above 28ºC have been registered in the extreme southeast of the peninsula in the Mediterranean.
Spain has suffered a heat wave since the beginning of the week, the third of the summer, caused by the anticyclone Charon in the west of the Mediterranean basin.