Winter will be drier than usual and 0.7ºC warmer in Spain, says AEMET
Thursday, December 19, 2019 @ 2:21 PM
YOU'RE probably already feeling it, but winter's not officially here yet – although it's coming this weekend, and is set to be the 11th warmest in Spain since 1965.
That doesn't mean you'll be able to spend it on the beach topping up your tan (although residents in the islands, the south and on the Mediterranean often do experience freak warm days where they can do just that), but it does mean the average temperature will be 0.7ºC higher than the norm for the season.
Although the meteorological seasons do not necessarily follow the ex-tropic solstices – the UK considers 'winter' to start in November, whilst in Australia, the first day of summer is December 1 - Spain does not differentiate between the two, meaning 'winter' officially begins at the end of the shortest night.
This means Sunday, December 22 at 05.19 in the morning on the mainland is when the season changes, even though it will still be dark in the far west for more than an hour after daylight breaks in the Balearic Islands.
This winter in Spain will be very dry, the eighth-warmest of this century, with very little rainfall.
In Catalunya and the province of Teruel – the latter being typically one of the coldest in the country where nights of -12ºC are not unusual – the temperature will be around 1ºC higher than normal, according to the State meteorological agency, AEMET.
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