The heat wave that has shaken the country since Sunday says goodbye tomorrow, with an Atlantic front associated with storm Betty and a “sharp” drop in temperatures in the north, although this Thursday the Valencian Community is still on yellow alert.
Despite the influence of the storm, which has previously shaken Ireland and part of the United Kingdom with heavy rains, in our country, the southern half, the northeast and the archipelagos, temperatures will continue to be significantly high even tomorrow, according to the predictions of the State Agency of Meteorology (Aemet).
“The heat wave will end tomorrow with a sudden change in the weather,” Aemet spokesman José Luis Camacho reported today.
Camacho has asked the public to pay attention to the weather bulletins and warnings in the coming days because this sudden thermal change “may be associated with high-impact phenomena: significant drops in temperatures, heavy rains and storms accompanied by violent gusts in some areas” .
Wednesday was the hottest day of summer in Spain and the current heat wave has been the most intense and longest of 2023, according to Aemet.
Faced with temperatures these days above 40 degrees in large areas of the north, especially the Basque Country, with values ??even of 42 degrees, the predictions for Friday place the maximum in cities such as Bilbao and San Sebastián at 25 and 24 degrees, respectively.
Despite this, the entire country is still on alert today and especially the Ribera del Ebro in Zaragoza and Navarra, which are at a red level, due to temperatures that will occasionally reach 42 degrees.
Another seven communities remain at the orange risk level, due to records of more than 40 degrees, especially the northeast, central zone and southwest of the peninsula, and many others are in yellow, with slightly lower risk than the previous one.
In fact, on the Valencian coast it will register 39 degrees and in the vega del Segura (region of Murcia) locally up to 40 degrees.
With temperatures that are breaking records and affecting health, the results of the autopsy carried out by the Alicante Forensic Anatomical Institute are still awaiting to confirm whether the death of a 28-year-old man last Tuesday was due to a heatstroke. The young man fainted and died when he was on a hiking route around the l’Infern ravine, in La Vall d’Ebo (Alicante).
In this regard, Rafael Sánchez, a member of the Judicial Police team of the Civil Guard of Altea, stressed that the young man had previous experience doing routes, but at one point on this, very winding and quite uneven, the young man fainted and the arrival of the toilets had already died.
In fact, a week before they had already been in the same area, explained Sánchez, who explained that there was a warning for extreme heat that day.
However, Sánchez has not been able to specify if this death is due to heat stroke, since, he has indicated, it will be the autopsy that determines it.
