Why do heat waves occur?

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The dreaded heat waves are an increasingly normal phenomenon during the summer months. During the last years, Spain is experiencing increasingly intense episodes with temperatures that easily exceed the suffocating barrier of 40 degrees making the days unbearable and endless. But have you ever wondered why such heat waves occur?

For a few days, Spain has been suffering what is popularly known as a heat wave. Temperatures easily exceed 40 degrees for 3 or more days, which makes the environment practically unbreathable and you can't be out on the street until dark. The vast majority of meteorologists say this is due to the warm winds that blow from Africa towards the peninsula.

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These experts think that heat waves are becoming more frequent over time and with much higher temperatures than a few years ago. This fact is due to the serious effects that climate change causes on the entire planet with each passing day. Currently and according to fairly reliable data, in Spain there is a heat wave every 5 years, while half a century ago it was something very abnormal and occurred every 20 years.

The dangerous increase in temperature, the melting that the entire Arctic area is suffering and the advance of climate change These are the dangerous factors that are causing heat waves to become increasingly common and long in areas of the planet such as Spain. That is why it is important that people become more and more aware so that they know that climate change is something really serious and that it can cause serious problems on the planet, such as suffocating heat waves.


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