SPAIN DECLARED RED ALERT IN SOME REGIONS DUE TO HEAT

Fri 13 August 2021:

According to the State Meteorological Agency Aemet, a heat wave from Africa has produced a significant rise in temperatures across Spain, prompting a red alert in some areas.

The red alert was issued on Friday throughout the Guadalquivir River basin, as well as in the cities of Cordoba and Seville, both in the autonomous community of southern Andalusia. The temperature there was between 44 and 46 degrees Celsius (79.2 and 82.8 degrees Fahrenheit).

“Although the minimum temperatures generally do not deviate so much from normal in heat wave situations, this time they will also be between 5 and 10 degrees [Celcius] above the normal,” the Aemet spokesperson, Ruben Del Campo, said, as quoted by the Spanish El Pais newspaper.

Furthermore, a lot of locations of mainland Spain, as well as the Balearic and Canary Islands, will be coated in dust and sand brought in from the Sahara on Friday and Saturday. Saturday will be the hottest day of the week.

The risk of fires is still very high. Firefighters in Pobla de Massaluca, Catalonia, were able to put out fires on Friday, destroying 75 hectares of forest. 200 hectares of land were destroyed in the municipality of Rubia in the autonomous community of northwest Galicia. The fire has been extinguished.

Several countries in the southeast Mediterranean region, including Greece, Tunisia, and Turkey, have been experiencing severe wildfires since early August, following the region’s worst heatwave since 1987.

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