Those looking to cool down on the Spanish holiday island of Mallorca will have to make do with a cold shower or a large ice cream. A dive in Playa de Palma is in any case not recommended for this. For Saturday, “bathtub temperatures” of up to 28.7 degrees — nearly four degrees above the long-term average for July (24.8 degrees) — were forecast.
“It feels like stock at times, and August, with the traditionally highest water temperatures, is yet to come,” wrote “Mallorca Magazin”.
“Consequences of Climate Change”
The seawater is also significantly warmer as a result of the unusually long and intense heat wave that gripped most of Spain between 9 and 19 July. “This is clearly due to climate change,” quotes the weekly newspaper meteorologist Bernat Amengual of the Spanish weather service Aemet.
Spain is struggling with temperatures of up to 43 degrees
Both locals and tourists are in urgent need of cooling. The mercury column is expected to rise to 33 to 34 degrees over the weekend on “Ballermann” and to 39 degrees in the center and northeast of the island. In the capital Madrid it should be up to 40 degrees, in some regions of Andalusia in southern Spain even up to 43 degrees. The heat is not expected to subside until Tuesday.
Source: Krone
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