Were the temperature records until today in Portugal? | Crisis
This summer started shy, with some rain and mild temperatures, but now it has shown signs of an increase in its characteristics: dry, with little height compared to the rising thermometer of the year. This Monday the entire mainland is under orange alert, Show the meteorological warnings of the Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA), with the exception of the district of Faro (marked in yellow). The orange alert for persistence of very high values of the maximum temperature.
The thermometers in Coruche (district of Santarém), for example, reach at 46 degrees Celsius on Thursday. Although this IPMA forecast is confirmed, it still does not match the record of 47.3 Celsius recorded in Amareleja in 2003. Below we recall this and other meteorological extremes in Portugal.
The hottest May of the last 91 years
The last few months were also determined in terms of heat. The month of May 2022 was the hottest month of the last 91 years in mainland Portugal: the average value of the maximum temperature of the rising air at 25.87 degrees Celsius, which configures an anomaly of more than 4.91 degrees Celsius. The following month was the third warmest June on the planet on record, see the Climate change of Copernicus published this Thursday. These climatological conditions, although unique, are not necessarily a surprise to extremes. climate.
The Intergovernmental Panel for Changes in English (IPCC) report already shows that the promoter of the acronym in February is among the most well-known countries in the European Union when it comes to heat waves. These phenomena are not new, but they are a crisis that is becoming more intense and frequent. One heat wave occurs, in official terms, when the maximum daily temperature exceeds the average value by five degrees Celsius for at least six consecutive days.
What was the hottest day to date in mainland Portugal?
On August 1, 2003, thermometers reached 47.3 degrees Celsius in the parish of Amareleja, in the Alentejo municipality of Moura. According to list of climatological extremes of the Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA), this was the highest value of the maximum air temperature recorded to date in Portugal. The 108-square-kilometer parish is home to one of the largest power plants in the world – it was even the biggest, but for a short time – and, more recently, it was chosen for the installation of three photovoltaic projects. Amareleja is one of the hottest places in Europe during the summer, for cities like Athens and Badajoz, due to the sun exposure (estimated 362 hours in July and 146 in January).
And in the archipelagos?
The highest maximum air temperature to date in the Azores was 32.2 degrees Celsius, recorded on September 7, 1985 in Madalena, on the island of Pico. With regard to the Madeira archipelago, this was 39.0 degrees Celsius, recorded on August 10, 1976 at the Sanatorium of Monte, according to the same IPMA inventory.
What is the average air temperature record in the country?
The highest average air temperature to date in mainland Portugal was 38.2 degrees Celsius, recorded on the 26th of July 2004 in Faro, Algarve. This average is estimated after 4 hours recorded from the number of hours recorded from the number of hours recorded (on the thermometer of the number of hours collected)
What was the hottest year in Europe?
2020 was the warmest year on the European continent on record, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service. In seasonal terms, the autumn of the same year and the winter of 2019/2020 were also the highest temperatures. The other four warmest years on the old continent also took place in the last decade.
“The year 2020 stood out for the exceptional heat in the Arctic and a record number of tropical storms in the North Atlantic. It is not surprising that the last one was the hottest on record in the future, it is a year of urgency to reduce adverse climate impacts in the future”, he said two years ago that he will avoid different climate impacts, they said two years ago will prevent adverse climate impacts.