- The summer has begun on Thursday. In this way, AEMET has today made an assessment of spring weather and a prediction of summer. Although the month of April has been the driest since 1961, spring has been “normal” and expect summer to be warmer than normal.
Summer starts on Thursday at 22:51 in the evening and ends on September 22 after 93 days. Paloma Castro, head of the Agency Navarra de Meteorología (AEMET), has today made a spring weather assessment and a summer forecast. April has been the driest month since 1961. However, the drought was compensated in May and the spring average was positive. Data are normal and seasonal.
In addition, in May Navarre had the "busiest swamps of the state". This year is raining more than in the last two years. However, the situation has not been the same throughout Navarre; in the Bardennes, west and north there has not been so much rainfall. In Pamplona, however, the average has been exceeded every week, reaching 115% of rainfall. Agriculture has not been particularly wet, but Castro has stressed that this year they have been “lucky”.
Summer forecast
In general, there is a high probability of being "above normal temperatures" in Europe. In particular, in the Foral Community there is a probability of between 70% and 80%.
In terms of rainfall, the probability of being drier than normal ranges from 50% to 60%. As far as the extreme risk of fires is concerned, it will not return until 27 June. However, “fire risks will have to be seen day by day, but at the moment we are not at an extreme risk”, the representative of AEMET stressed.