The territorial delegate of the AEMET in Extremadura, Marcelino Núñez, has today made public the climate balance of the last winter season and the forecasts for the spring, which began today March 20 at 10:02 hours.
The delegate of the State Meteorological Agency has pointed out that the last quarter has been humid in terms of rainfall recorded in the region and the fifth warmest in temperatures of the reference period (1991-2020).
Precipitation
The average rainfall for the entire region during the winter was 191.9 liters/m², being higher than the reference value for this quarter: 156.3 litres/m². We have therefore had, and on average for all of Extremadura, a significant surplus of 35.6 liters/m². In other words, in this quarter the rainfall represented 123% of the reference value.
The December-January-February quarter was the 11th wettest of the reference period (1991-2020), in Extremadura.
The balance of accumulated rainfall during the hydrological year (from October-2024 to February-2025) has also been classified as humid. An average of 390.9 litres/m² has been recorded, the reference value being 318.6 litres/m², that is, the rainfall recorded in the aforementioned period has resulted in a surplus of 72.3 litres/m². The precipitation of what we have been in the hydrological year has accounted for 123% of the reference value.
Temperatures
In Extremadura, the average temperature of the December-January-February quarter was 9.6ºC, while the average reference temperature is: 8.6ºC, which means that we have had a positive anomaly of +1.0ºC with respect to the average value that allows us to classify this quarter as very warm in terms of temperatures.
The December-January-February quarter was the 5th warmest quarter of the reference period (1991-2020).
Spring forecast
For the months of April-May-June in Extremadura:
- The average temperature is more likely to be warmer than the reference values.
- There is no clear signal between the different sources of information so the probability of the tertiles (wet, normal, dry) is the climatological throughout Spain.