(Madrid) The Iberian Peninsula enters autumn with abnormally high temperatures for this time of year from Friday, sometimes exceeding 35°C, the weather agencies of both countries have warned.
In Spain, “we are already plunged into a heat episode with abnormally high temperatures for the time of year,” said the spokesperson for the Spanish national meteorological agency (AEMET), Ruben del Campo.
The thermometer showed more than 35°C in several towns in southern Spain early Friday afternoon.
The peak of this heat episode is expected between Friday and Monday, during which temperatures should exceed 32 to 34 degrees in a large part of the country, said AEMET.
These values are expected to exceed normal by 5 to 15 degrees.
Neighboring Portugal will experience temperatures above 30°C between Friday and Tuesday across the entire territory with the exception of a few coastal regions, according to the national meteorological institute.
Although these temperatures are not comparable to the heat waves that affect the country during the hottest months, “the predicted values correspond to anomalies of up to about 5-8 °C above the usual average levels for the season,” explained the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA) in a press release.
In France, the end of September is once again marked by unusual late heat, forecast for Sunday and especially Monday, with “temperatures which could point towards 35 degrees at most from the south-western plains to the eastern plains of Auvergne,” announced Tristan Amm, forecaster.
“Many heat records for the month of October are threatened” to be broken with forecasts of enormous seasonal anomalies, “sometimes beyond ten degrees,” added Mr. Amm, describing the episode as “ simply exceptional sequence.”