Last month of June was the warmest in the Iberian Peninsula since they have records of Aemet. The state meteorological agency. The second warmest month of average temperature in the world, after last June 2016. And it is that the planet consecutively registered monthly temperature records, between October 2015 and September 2016.
The average temperature that was recorded in Spain was 24,1ºC. Taking into account the average for this month, and taking the period between 1981 and 2010, the temperature has been 3ºC higher. The previous temperature record stood in 2003 at 24,0ºC, surpassed by 0,1ºC for the latter.
Exceptional global warmth
The Copernicus Climate Change Service of the European Center for Medium-term Meteorological Predictions, indicated that June this year the "Exceptional Global Warmth" period was extended. It began in mid-2015, and registered an increase of 0,38ºC in the month of June compared to the average between 1981 and 2010. They were only 0,06ºC lower compared to the same month last year 2016.
Other areas of the planet where unusual high temperatures were also recorded. Morocco, Siberia, Antarctica, parts of the Middle East and the southwestern United States among others.
Global temperature records
Annual records provided by Wikipedia
As we said recently in Meteorología en Red, Ahwad, Iran, registered a horrible 53,7ºC of temperature by a heat wave that led deh echo, to more than 50ºC in various places in the East. Among them Iraq and Kuwait. In The United States reached 47,2ºC in Las Vegas, 51,7ºC in Needles. The Phoenix airport had to cancel many flights, after registering 43ºC between the 17th and 27th of last month.
The heat wave that also hit the Iberian Peninsula, and that was moving through the southeast of Europe, caused more than 40ºC to be recorded in many countries.
It seems that the records will not cease, and that we continue in a warm period from which for now, we are not letting go. We will see how this whole summer that continues.