The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) has activated the yellow alert for high temperatures in Ibiza and Fomentera. The forecast is that the islands reach 36 degrees maximum. The yellow alert will remain active for three consecutive days from noon on Monday until 7 pm on Wednesday.
Last week began the first heat wave of the summer. The municipality of Sant Joan reached 37.3 degrees this Sunday, the second highest temperature in the Balearic Islands, only behind the 38.1 degrees of Binissalem (Mallorca). The city of Ibiza recorded 36 degrees. It was followed by Formentera with 35 degrees, Sant Antoni (34 degrees) and Ibiza airport (32 degrees).
As for the minimum temperatureslast night the airport of Ibiza and Formentera recorded 22 degrees, followed by Ibiza town, with 21 degrees and Sant Antoni (20 degrees). Cooler was the night in Sant Joan, where it did not cross the barrier of 20 degrees and reached 19 degrees.
The minimum expected for this week in Ibiza does not fall below 24 degrees, but from Thursday will be 25 to 26 degrees, thus going from tropical to torrid nights, according to the forecast of the Aemet.
Forecast for the month of July
The State Meteorological Agency forecasts that the month of july to start with “abnormally high” temperaturesbetween three and six degrees higher than the average values for this time of the year” in Balares
The week from June 30 to July 6 will be marked, thus, by high temperatures in the Peninsula and the Balearic archipelago. The heat wave that began on June 28 will continue at least until July 2 or 3, with nights that will not drop below 23 to 25 degrees Celsius.
The maximum temperatures in points of the southern half of the peninsula may exceed 40 or 42 degrees. In the northern third will cool from Tuesday, but in the rest of the territory will continue to be very hot. Precipitation will be, in general, scarce, but in the interior could leave storms in the afternoons.
For the weeks from July 6 to 20, the Aemet forecasts that it will continue “a full summer weather, with high temperatures, above normal values in most of the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands and closer to its normal average in the Canary Islands”.
There may be precipitation, generally scarce, but without ruling out the formation of storms in the north and east of the Peninsula that could locally reach strong intensity.
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