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Spain faces a hotter summer in south and east of the country
By h.b. - Jun 20, 2008 - 7:16 PM
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Francisco Cadarso, General Director of AEMET, at the press conference today - Photo EFE
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The higher temperatures in the Summer follow on from the wettest Spring for 37 years in Spain.
The wettest Spring in Spain for the last 37 years gives way tonight to what is expected to be a hotter summer than last year in the south and east of the mainland, with average temperatures between half a degree and a degree higher than normal.

The predictions come from the State Meteorological Agency, AEMET, which held a press conference this afternoon to welcome the new season.

Looking back at Spring, the season had been specially wet, above all in the month of May, and that this had, in part, eased the drought conditions in place at the start of the hydrological year which runs from October 1 to September 30.

Chief of predictions, Fermín Elizaga, said that temperatures for July, August and September will be ‘slightly’ higher in the areas of the Levante and South, while the rest of the country would see normal temperatures. However that did not mean that would not also see some heatwave activity which could send temperatures in the Guadalquivir valley to 37 degrees and see temperatures in the low 30’s on the Levante.


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