Heat keeps the Balearic Islands on alert: high temperatures will continue all week.
The heat wave is expected to last until next Monday.
PalmThe Balearic Islands continue with a yellow heat warning this Wednesday (temperatures expected to range between 20 and 34 degrees Celsius) on the eleventh day of a heat wave affecting the entire state since August 3rd, which will likely last until next Monday. The sky will be partly cloudy to clear with periods of high clouds during the afternoon.
The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) forecasts that temperatures in the Canary Islands will remain stable or rise slightly on Thursday.
The outlook for Friday is similar, with temperatures showing little change (although a high of 36 degrees is expected).
The weekend will remain stable, also with high temperatures, and there will be light westerly winds with coastal breezes.
At the beginning of the week, Aemet forecasts that the maximum temperature will remain stable or, probably, rise slightly.
"Unprecedented"
On the other hand, the agency has warned that "with the observed and forecast data, there is no precedent for a period between August 1 and 20 as warm as that of 2025" in Spain. As it explained, the only comparable period is the same in August 2003.
In this sense, it indicates that Tuesday the 12th was the warmest day in Spain as a whole during the heat wave and also of the entire summer.
In fact, it emphasizes that there has not been such a high average temperature on August 11 and 12 since at least 1950. According to the forecast, the 16th and 17th could also be record-breaking.
Relatively normal temperatures
So far in August, temperatures in the Balearic Islands have been relatively normal compared to what is expected for the season, with an anomaly of only 0.4 degrees compared to the historical record. Specifically, the anomaly in Menorca is 0.1 degrees; in Ibiza, 0.4, and in Mallorca, 0.5.
According to the Aemet delegation in the Balearic Islands, the highest average temperature recorded in August was in 2022 with 33.7 degrees, and then in 2022, with an average of 33 degrees. This year, the average temperature, for the moment, is 31.7 degrees.