Last Monday, June 30, Spain woke up with a heat wave. Maximum temperatures continue to be very high with an average of 36 degrees in early July, and the minimums do not fall from the 25 degreesso the stage of suffocating days and torrid nights are inaugurated. The State Meteorology Agency provides that the suffocating heat last, at least, until Thursday, July 3.
It is not a heat wave within the margins. This Tuesday, the State Meteorology Agency (Aemet) and Meteocat They have confirmed that June 2025 has been, by far, the warmest month of registration, both in Spain and in Catalonia.
A tourist uses two umbrellas to protect himself from the sun in front of the sacred family in Barcelona this Saturday.
The average temperature of the country In June it reached 23.6 ° Cwhich represents 3.5 ° C above the average of the 1991–2020 period, exceeding 0.8 ° C the previous June record that occurred in 2017, and for the first time equals or exceeds the usual means of July and August.
In 23 provinces temperatures above 40 degrees and maximums of up to 46 ° C were recordeda value never seen in June
The minimums have also been spectacularly high, Temperatures have been recorded above 25 degrees in 17 provinces and numerous coastal areas. The Mediterranean average temperature record was even beat: 26.04 ° C, with anomalies of up to +5 ° C in some areas.
View of Barceloneta Beach in Barcelona this Saturday
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According to the Aemet This situation has been caused after a “heat dome”, a mass of high pressure air that catches heat for weeks. The European Copernicus program and experts of Aemet and Meteocat confirm that these phenomena are increasingly frequent and intense due to climate change.
This increase in temperatures is worrying for public health: nights are increased without rest, thermal stress, more respiratory, cardiovascular diseases and generalized discomfortespecially among older people, children and outdoor workers.
