The temperature of the water on the coasts of Spain reached an all-time high for this time, reported the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet), which is keeping part of the country on alert this Wednesday for the hello of heat.
According to Aemet readings in the Spanish coastal areas, the sea temperature reached an average of 24.6 degrees Celsius in mid-July, about 2.2 degrees more than normal for the season.
The average temperature in coastal areas of 24.6 °C, an unprecedented figure -for these dates- since 1940.
The figure “far exceeds the records of the two previously warmest years”, 2015 (24 °C) and 2022 (23.7 °C) and is “unprecedented for mid-July in the entire historical series” that began in 1940, Aemet said on Twitter.
This situation, in a context of global warming of the oceansis even more worrying since the summer is far from over, according to an Aemet spokesman, Rubén del Campo.