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Fire in Ourense, Spain
Hottest summer ever but, at the same time, triple the amount of rain. Northern Portugal under special attention.
2025 recorded the hottest summer ever, or since there are records, in the Iberian Peninsula. But at the same time, the rain what fell was the triple of the average.
The conclusions and warnings appear in the report from Copernicus, the European Union’s Earth observation program.
The sequence of storms in January, the floods and the fires they will all be related to a record maritime heat wave in Portugal.
There were much more conditions wet than the European average, since June. At the same time, the interior registered a lot of time seco – there was an exceptional forest fire season.
Portugal registered more 229% of average quantity of precipitation than is normal. The soils were 31% more wet than the average, continues to .
River flows in the Iberian Peninsula are above average this spring – especially in rivers tea e Guadiana.
The first week of fires, in the summer, soon saw the highest annual number of fires gas emissionssince 2002.
Only Portugal and Spain, alone, had half of total European emissions with fires, estimated for the entire year.
A “climate threat” for the Iberian Peninsula appears in the warnings for the future of the report: they are increase as conditions meteorological extreme which facilitate the appearance of extreme phenomena, especially in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula.
