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Marc Santandreu

Physicist and meteorologist at RTVE

There is a lot of criticism on social networks that we are giving so much importance to the heat these days because 'in summer it has always been hot'. But the truth is that it is not, or at least not so intense.  

We must remember that a heat wave is an extreme phenomenon in which temperatures are exceeded that are very uncommon and, therefore, this heat is uncommon.  

Specifically, this heat wave is marked by an extremely warm air mass that is reaching temperatures of more than 30 ºC at about 1,500 meters above sea level, where orographic peculiarities have little to say. Values that can make it the most intense, along with the one we experienced last August. This is a fact to which, by the way, we will have to get used to and adapt. The reason, whether we like it or not, is called global warming.

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