Spain Likely to Experience , Another Year of , High Temperatures and Wildfires.
Fox News reports that scientists warn Spain has entered
a period of long-term drought, the result of increasing
temperatures and reduced rainfall in recent years.
According to the country's Aemet weather
agency, statistics show that the long-duration
drought began at the the end of 2020. .
Data from the first three months
of 2023 has failed to show
any major signs of change.
The first available predictions
for the summer of 2023 point to
a likely situation of temperatures
once again above normal, Rubén del Campo, Aemet spokesman, via Fox News.
Rubén del Campo, a spokesman for Aemet,
added that "the risk of fires could be very
high given the high temperatures.".
Del Campo also pointed out
that Spain has experienced
severe droughts in the recent past.
Most recently, drought struck Spain in 2017.
Before that, it occurred in 2005 and
at the end of both the '90s and the '80s.
To put it in context,
we´re in a drought but there
have been worse droughts,
which is not to say this
will not be important, Rubén del Campo, Aemet spokesman, via Fox News.
While Spain is geographically prone to experiencing both high temperatures and drought, Aemet says that climate change is now playing a key role.
Since the '60s,
Del Campo says that Spain has
warmed by 34 degrees Fahrenheit.