MADRID, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- Spain can expect a warmer than average autumn with temperatures between 0.2 and 1.5 degrees Celsius above the norm, according to the quarterly forecast made by the Spanish Meteorological Agency (AEMET) on Monday.
AEMET predicts that October will see temperatures of around 1 and 1.5 degrees higher in the southwest and around 1 degree higher in the rest of the country, while November and December are also expected to be especially warm in parts of central Spain.
October is also expected to be drier than usual with AEMET spokesperson Ana Casals explaining that the west and southwest will be especially dry, although there will be "more rain during November and December" for almost all of Spain, with especially heavy rainfall in the Basque region and the east of the country.
Casals explains the warm autumn follows a "crazy" summer which had been "filled with records" with average temperatures of 24.7 degrees, which is 1.6 degrees above the norm and only behind 2003 as the hottest summer since 1965.
The summer was "extremely hot," all over Spain with the regions of Andalusia, Extremadura, Castilla La-Mancha, Madrid, Castilla and Leon, and southern Aragon all seeing record highs, indeed the hottest temperature ever recorded in Spain, 46.9 degrees, was measured in the city of Cordoba on July 13th as the region of Andalusia suffered 37 days where the maximum temperature was over 40 degrees.
It was on average a wet summer with average rainfall of 79 liters per square meter, but this rainfall was very uneven with the south of the country, as well as the regions of Catalonia and Galicia having dry weather.
