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Apparently, 31 July usually records the highest temperatures experienced during the summer, and this year was no different.
Thankfully, the suffocating heat has disappeared and temperatures have dropped a good few degrees.
So, what does August have in store for us? And where is a good place to be if you don’t like the heat.
According to weather experts from Eltiempo.es, Murcia is the autonomous region that typically registers the highest temperatures during the month of August, with an average of 26 degrees.
Murcia is followed by the Valencia Region and Extremadura, which both usually record temperatures of around 25 degrees on average.
If you’re reading this and thinking it’s a lot hotter than that where you are, we have to remember that maximum temperaturescan also reach as high as 40 degrees during this month, and has done on many occasions.
In 2012, for example, a maximum high of 43.2 degrees was registered in Murcia, and in Extremadura in 2003, one of the hottest summers ever, the thermometer rose to an absolute high of 44.1 degrees in the province of Badajoz.
If you’re not a fan of the heat, you might prefer to head up north where the average temperatures for August are much lower. On average, the regions of Asturias, Galicia, the Basque Country and Cantabria generally tend to register temperatures of ranging between 19 and 20 degrees.
In other parts of Spain, the thermometer generally reads somewhere in the middle: Andalucía with 25.6 degrees; the Balearic Islands 24.6 degrees; Castilla-La Mancha with 23.5 degrees; Madrid 23.1 degrees; the Canary Islands with 22.8 degrees; Cataluña at 22.8 degrees; Aragón with 22.6 degrees; La Rioja at 22.1 degrees; Navarra with 20.9 degrees and Castilla y León with 20.4 degrees.
The highest temperature recorded between 1981 and 2013 in Murcia was on 4 July 1994 when the thermometer reached an astonishing 47.2 degrees. Thankfully, it looks like we won’t be experiencing anything as hot this year.
Source: www.laverdad.es