Portugal: Recorded Thermometer May 1931 – Summer Announced ‘Worrying’

THE Portugal He had a serious problem with high temperatures, as he recorded the thermometer in May from 1931, as the average maximum temperature was 25.87 degrees Celsius, ie “the highest since 1931”, the date on which comparable data began to be collected.

«It was the hottest month of the last 92 years“, Announced the Portuguese Maritime and Atmospheric Institute (IPMA) He added that the amount of rainfall in May was also “much lower than normal” for the period 1971-2000, which is only 13% of the average.

IPMA therefore found a “very significant increase” in the areas facing “severe drought“, Which now concerns 97.1% of the land compared to 4.3% at the end of April.

At the end of May, 1.4% of the country was already in a very serious situation “Extreme drought”.

“This deficit of rainfall that we are observing follows the trend of the last 20 years, which were marked by more frequent periods of drought due to climate change,” Vanda Pires, a climatologist at IPMA, told Agence France-Presse.

“Worrying” summer

According to scientists, recurring heat waves are a clear indicator of global warming and these heat waves are expected to multiply, lengthen and intensify.

In Portugal, after a winter that was already the fourth warmest and the fifth driest after 1931, summer is announced as “worrying” as residents will have to wait for autumn to “hope to return to normal”.

From Friday, the country is expected to record “significant increase in temperatures, which can reach 40 degrees Celsius”said Vanda Pires.

For this reason, the Civil Protection Service warned today of an “increased risk of fires” and mobilized for this weekend a mechanism consisting of 5,000 people.

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Source: News Beast

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