Albacete.- The subdelegate of the Government of Spain in Albacete, Miguel Juan Espinosa, and the territorial director of the State Agency of Meteorology in Castilla-La Mancha, Marcelino Rojo, have reported, at a press conference in the Subdelegation of the Government in Albacete, the climate summary of the winter and the prediction of AEMET for the spring months.
Espinosa has highlighted the importance of the predictions made by the State Meteorological Agency thanks to its key role in dealing with the increasingly frequent weather adversities, which allow us to anticipate events such as the Filomena storm, which made it possible to deploy the Emergency Military Unit, before the snowfall.
The territorial delegate of AEMET in Castilla-La Mancha has highlighted that the Castilla-La Mancha winter has been “very warm” and with normal rainfall values, but very dispersed, while the spring, which begins next Monday, will be warmer and drier than usual, according to data and predictions of the State Meteorological Agency.
Rojo has confirmed that last December it was "extremely warm", with a temperature of 3.1 degrees above the average, being the warmest of the historical series begun in 1961.
In terms of rainfall, it has been a humid quarter, thanks to the month of December, which had a large amount of accumulated rainfall, compared to the months of January and February, considered as very dry, resulting in that “all the expected rainfall for this quarter was only in December, instead of being distributed”, said Marcelino Rojo.
In particular, the territorial delegate of AEMET has reported, on December 13, a minimum temperature of 13.9 degrees was recorded in Albacete, being a very anomalous value for those dates. As for the maximum temperatures, on February 21, a temperature of 23.9 degrees was recorded in Villarrobledo. A week later, on February 28, a minimum of -15.8 degrees would be registered in Molina de Aragón, evidencing a week with a great thermal amplitude in Box-La Mancha.
As for the prediction that the State Meteorological Agency has made for this spring, Marcelino Rojo has proposed that, as for the rest of Spain, in Castilla-La Mancha the temperatures will be "much higher than normal" and, with regard to precipitation, he has pointed out that there is no clear definition of them, except for rain in the second week of April, where probability of rain is expected for that week.
Rojo pointed out that “all the data indicate that we are heading for a scenario where temperatures are getting higher and higher, and rainfall is getting more and more dispersed over time, but more extreme.”