This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies. Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Mainland Spain sizzled in its warmest September since records began in 1961, with exceptional heat effectively making it another summer month, national weather agency AEMET said on Friday. The announcement is the latest in a series of new temperature records this year across Europe, scorched by successive summer heat waves that scientists say were turbocharged by human-driven climate change.
The average temperature in September was 22.5C (72.5 degrees Fahrenheit), 3.4C above the norm for the 1991–2020 reference period, said AEMET, with the unprecedented reading coming after Spain's hottest summer on record. It was the first time the figure for September exceeded the average summer temperature of 22.1C (71.8 degrees Fahrenheit) for the 1991–2020 period, AEMET added in a statement. The country equaled its all-time heat record for the month when 45.7C (114.3 degrees Fahrenheit) was registered in the southwestern municipality of El Granado on Sept. 3.
AEMET briefly issued the highest red alert for heat in small areas of the southern region of Andalusia in September, the first time such warnings had been sent in the month since they started in 2007. Last month was also extremely dry, recording just 36% of the normal rainfall expected in September in mainland Spain based on the 1991–2020 reference period. Extreme temperatures have been linked to tens of thousands of excess deaths across the continent, as well as disrupting daily life and the economy through drought and low river levels.
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