Alicante is experiencing its hottest July nights in the last 100 years

7/25/23, 4:18 PM By AEMET . Costa Blanca Photo Credit: Getty Images

AEMET have confirmed that the first 25 nights of July have been the hottest in the last century in the province of Alicante. The State Meteorological Agency says that the high overnight temperatures are unprecedented and haven’t dropped below 25°C.

The statistics extracted from the measurements of the Observatory that AEMET has in Alicante reflect that, so far, on average, the province of Alicante is experiencing the warmest July since 1939, as all of the first 25 days of the month have surpassed even the most suffocating records of the years 2015 and 2022.

The average temperature of these first 25 days of July is 28.3°C, which represents a thermal anomaly, compared to the 1991-2020 average, of +2.5°C. It exceeds, therefore, the average of July 2015, which was 28°C, and last year (2022) which had an average of 27.3°C.

However, the daytimes of July 2023 are not the hottest. In 1952 the anomaly of the days was 3.1°C more. In 1964 it was 2.9°C more; in 2015 it was 2.5°C more and in 2023 it is turning out to be 2°C more so far.

Thermal contrast day and night:
According to AEMET, “While July’s nights are being, by far, the warmest since records began, the days are occupying eleventh place. We are facing an extremely warm month of July, especially because of the nights, whose values up to the 25th are unprecedented".

Last night, the night from Monday to Tuesday, registered very high minimum temperatures, especially in the southern half of the province, where the thermometer has not dropped below 25°C. In Javea, the AEMET weather station marked 27°C; in Orihuela 26.4°C; in Rojales 25.5°C; in Alicante 25.2°C; at Pego 25.2°C and at the Alicante-Elche airport 25°C. This shows that the equatorial or torrid nights that have been happening since the end of June, are continuing.