The warmth wave brought on in July by the presence of an Atlantic anticyclone, which displaced a mass of very heat African air over the mainland and the Balearics, appears to be the explanation for the extraordinarily excessive temperatures in virtually the whole nation that raised the typical for July, whereas within the Canary Islands there have been two warmth waves.

This wave, which affected the mainland and the Balearics between July 9 and 29, was “crucial since data have been saved, because it was the most intense, probably the most in depth and the second longest within the sequence” after the one suffered in 2015 (26 days), in line with the Aemet.

It was additionally the most in depth together with that of August 2012, affecting forty provinces, and probably the most intense because the thermal anomaly was 4.8 ºC, “far exceeding” the warmth wave of August final 12 months, which till now had been probably the most intense with common temperatures for July 2022 even larger (0.2 ºC larger) than July 2015, which till now was the warmest month in Spain because the data started 61 years in the past.

Day by day most temperatures have been on common 3.3 °C above regular, whereas minimal temperatures have been 2.2 °C above the typical, “leading to a every day temperature variation 1.1 °C above regular for the month”, defined Aemet.

July 2022 was additionally the ninth driest July since knowledge has been out there and the driest for the previous fifteen years.