Ciudad Real.- The AEMET delegate in Castilla-La Mancha, Marcelino Rojo, has offered a press conference in which he predicts a very warm summer but less dry than in previous years.
In his appearance, Marcelino Rojo, first made a balance of these three spring months, which he described as “extremely warm”, since these studies were carried out (year 1961), with an average temperature of 14.5 degrees Celsius, assuming an anomaly of 2 degrees above the average temperature of this period.
The territorial delegate of AEMET has also reported on the evolution of the hydrological year, “with a very low volume of rainfall in March and April, this last month with 4.5 liters per square meter being the driest since 1961.”
On the contrary, May has had a higher rainfall than normal (compared to other months in May before), as they have been 134% above the average, registering 65.2 liters per square meter. These rainfalls that have been convective, storm type, have left data such as the 57 liters per square meter on May 28 in Fuencaliente or the 20 liters per square meter dropped in ten minutes the same day in Villanueva de los Infantes.
However, this year has been the fifth driest, with the springs of 1984, 1995, 2005, 2014 having been even less rainy since these data were collected.
Regarding the forecasts for July, August and September, it is expected that the summer months will bring higher temperatures than normal, giving most of the models greater rainfall, which in any case will also be of convective type.
With regard to the AEMET Digital Transformation Plan, the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan provides for the renovation of the radar network and one of them is the radar that will be located at the Almagro Airborne Helicopter Base, which will significantly improve the current coverage of the radar network.