Tuesday, August 9, 2016

On the hottest day of the year the temperatures reached the 44.8 degrees – Journal News

Sunday was the hottest this year, with an average maximum air temperature reaching 38.2 degrees and the minimum 19.1, according to the Institute of Marine Research and the atmosphere.

according to information available on the website of the Sea Portuguese Institute and the Atmosphere (IPMA), there were on Saturday and Sunday very high values ​​of maximum and minimum air temperatures due to a hot air flow and dry, associated with a current east quadrant.

“in these days, deviations in temperature were generally above 6 degrees Celsius, and to highlight that on Sunday, the deviations in Porto / Pedras Rubras were 11.8 degrees in Coimbra / Bencanta and Santarém 12.2 / 12.6 Good Source “indicates the Institute.

with regard to the minimum, the largest deviations were recorded on Sunday and were superior the standard 10 degrees in Portalegre (10.9), Porto (10.5) and Lisbon (10.4).

“in mainland Portugal, the August 7 [Sunday] was, until to date, the hottest day of 2016 with average maximum air temperature of 38.2 degrees and the minimum 19.1 “according to IPMA.

the data indicate that in order to week, the maximum temperature values ​​equal to or greater than 34 degrees were registered on more than 70% of meteorological stations continent.

“the values ​​of maximum equal to or greater than 40 degrees were registered in more than one third of the stations. “

the highest values ​​of maximum temperature (above 44 degrees) found in Mora, Évora district, (44.8), Tomar, Santarém district (44.7) and Lousã district Coimbra (44.6).

“the greatest value of the minimum air temperature (27.9 degrees) occurred in Lisbon / Geophysicist overnight from Saturday to Sunday and is the new absolute maximum for this location [previous highest of 27.8 degrees on August 2, 1964), said the IPMA.

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