Meteorology The third heat wave brings temperatures above 40 degrees and sweltering nights to Spain again

A new heat wave -the third of the summer- will hit Spain again starting tomorrow and will trigger the thermometers above 40 degrees in a large part of the country. In addition, it will bring “tropical” and suffocating nights with lows that in many places will not drop below 25 degrees.

The State Meteorological Agency has warned that this mass of warm air from Africa will affect a large part of the countries bordering the Mediterranean and that in Spain the temperatures will be very high, above the usual values ??of the heatwave -the warmest period of the year, which runs from mid-July to mid-August-.

A situation that will extend the meteorological warnings to 12 autonomous communities and that will dye these alerts “red” (extreme risk) during the next few days in some places; tomorrow they will reach that maximum alert level in Andalusia and on Tuesday it will be activated in the communities of Catalonia, Aragon and the Balearic Islands, with temperatures in all cases that will widely exceed 40 degrees.

The Aemet, which has issued a special notice on the occasion of this new heat wave, has explained that starting tomorrow a mass of very warm, dry and stable air will enter, with characteristics similar to the heat episode that occurred at the beginning This week.

This mass of warm air coming from Africa, together with the high insolation typical of this time of year, will be what causes the rise in temperatures in a large part of the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, except in the northwestern third, and that values ??are reached very high in areas of the center and the interior south of the peninsula, in depressions in the northeast and in the interior of Mallorca during the first half of the week.

The highest temperatures will be reached tomorrow in the center and interior south of the peninsula and in the Guadiana valley, where 40 degrees will be exceeded in a general way, as well as in the Guadalquivir valley, where it will exceed 42, but Aemet has advanced which locally can reach 44 degrees.

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