{"id":146154,"date":"2023-12-13T10:29:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T10:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritywshow.com\/?p=146154"},"modified":"2023-12-13T10:29:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T10:29:47","slug":"spain-records-its-highest-ever-december-temperature-of-29-9c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritywshow.com\/world-news\/spain-records-its-highest-ever-december-temperature-of-29-9c\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain records its highest ever December temperature of 29.9C"},"content":{"rendered":"
Temperatures across Spain\u00a0smashed records for December as a mass of hot air swept over the Iberian Peninsula on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Met Office reported that top holiday destination Malaga reached temperatures of 29.9C (85.5F) yesterday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Local weather data revealed that Valencia, meanwhile, had highs of 27C (80.6F), while Alicante reached a slightly milder 24C (75.2F).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Spaniards’ hopes of a white\u00a0Christmas are waning after a summer with four heatwaves amidst the hottest year on record.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘It’s one of the warmest masses of air to have ever overflown Spain at this point in December,’ Ruben del Campo, a spokesperson for the national weather agency AEMET, said.<\/p>\n
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While the Northern Hemisphere gears up for the arrival of winter, Spaniards’ hopes of a ‘white’ Christmas are waning after a summer with four heatwaves<\/p>\n
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Beachgoers were seen enjoying what is likely Spain’s final heatwave of 2023<\/p>\n
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The searing temperatures come as world leaders have agreed to ‘transition away’ from fossil fuels for the first time at the COP28 climate talks<\/p>\n
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The Met Office reported that top holiday destination Malaga reached temperatures of 29.9C (85.8F) yesterday<\/p>\n
He added that the unseasonable heat, coupled with predictions of sparse rainfall until the end of February, heralded a ‘not very good’ season for winter sports that depend on abundant snow, which once melted is also a crucial water resource for the spring and summer months.<\/p>\n
The exceptional warmth is likely to end after Wednesday when AEMET forecasts cooler air from higher latitudes will bring temperatures down to more normal values for December.<\/p>\n
At the popular ski resort of Navacerrada outside Madrid, visitors bemoaned the lack of snow.<\/p>\n
‘It’s a terrifying feeling because this should really be covered in snow or frozen over, but instead it’s green and lush for this time of the year,’ Tania, a 32-year-old marine biologist who only gave her first name, told Reuters.<\/p>\n
Vicente Solsona, a 66-year-old retired university professor from eastern Castellon province, said that Navacerrada should have at least three feet of snow on such a date.<\/p>\n
‘We’re calmly destroying everything,’ he added. ‘The problem is that there’s no going back.’<\/p>\n
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Tourists swapped ski slopes for beaches during the freak heatwave<\/p>\n
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Hundreds were seen playing games on beaches across Spain’s south coast\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The exceptional warmth is likely to end after Wednesday, forecasters said<\/p>\n
The searing temperatures come as world leaders have agreed to ‘transition away’ from fossil fuels for the first time at the COP28 climate talks\u00a0in Dubai, after a ‘historic’ climate change deal was approved by almost 200 countries this morning.<\/p>\n
The deal is the first time in nearly three decades of annual UN climate summits that the world has agreed to language that explicitly limits future use of fossil fuels.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The non-binding ‘global stocktake’ deal was negotiated for the last two weeks at the conference in the UAE, with delegates staying up until 5am this morning to get the wording right.<\/p>\n
Over 21 pages and nearly 200 paragraphs, the deal sets out a path away from the use of fossil fuels in order to ‘achieve net zero by 2050’.<\/p>\n
Signatories have pledged to ‘contribute… to transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems in a just, orderly and equitable manner’.<\/p>\n
It calls for a tripling of renewable energy capacity globally by 2030, speeding up efforts to reduce coal use, and accelerating technologies such as carbon capture and storage that can clean up hard-to-carbonise industries.<\/p>\n
On top of this, there is a recognition that global emissions will likely peak before 2025, and that developing nations may have their peak slightly later.<\/p>\n
The deal also ‘reiterates’ that developed nations support more vulnerable states facing the potential consequences of climate change, such as rising sea levels.<\/p>\n