The heat wave is leaving us some amazing records. And worrying, such as notices, oranges and reds (due to important risk and extreme risk respectively) due to temperatures that could exceed 40º today. It is striking, but it is not the strangest case we have seen these days.
Broking the 43º? Undoubtedly one of the unique views during this heat wave is that of the municipality of Torla-Aordesa. According to the data compiled by the State Meteorology Agency (Aemet), the Pyrenean municipality station was placed between the three meteorological stations with higher maximums throughout the country: 42.9º Celsius yesterday, day 10. But there is a problem: perhaps everything was an error in the measurement.
The data that could be consulted this morning through the agency’s website indicated that the daytime maximum at the Torla-Aorda station had been ascending in recent days: 41.3º on the 8th, 42nd on the 9th and, 42.9º on Sunday.
Something did not fit. However, something did not fit. The fact that a station located at a height of 1,076 meters in the Pyrenees Oscense offered considerably higher readings than others located in its environment was certainly strange.
As a contrast, the station Sabiñánigolocated something further south already 775 m, registered a maximum of 40.3º. That of Ordesa ParadorOrdesa and Monteperdido National Park, at 1,206 meters, registered a maximum of 36.9º; and that of Torla-Aordesa, the onion He collected 30.4 to 1,905 meters above sea level. A striking record.
What is happening? Something did not fit and Aemet has taken measures and the latest data of the station are not available, which perhaps does not avoid certain confusion since the data had been reproduced in numerous media. The question is now what happening.
From the Twitter account The North Meteo They offered a possible explanation, a non -conjunctural but structural. Through a threadthe account pointed out a few days ago that the location of the station, near a water treatment plant (a heat source) and the vegetation of the environment, could be affecting the station’s records.
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A heat wave. The data surprised some, but not everyone. After all, cone or without measurement errors, the province of Huesca and those of its surroundings are going through a complicated situation. We pointed out the more than 40º in Sabiñánigo, but this is not alone to exceed the temperature. As explained he HERALDO DE ARAGÓNFraga, Ballobar, or Sariñena are some of the localities that exceeded this temperature.
For example, at the Cabdella Tower station, in the Leridano Pyrenees, at 1,273 meters, on Saturday, 32.8º were recorded; while In Isaba/leftto 838 and in Navarra, the maxims reached 38.4 on Friday and again on Saturday.
The controversy shows us a background problem, and that is that the data has lost, at least, their ability to surprise us. In full heat wave and in a context of climate change it is difficult to be surprised by temperatures that in principle would seem crazy but that are less and less. The work of experts is doubly important in this situation, it is the human eye that allows us to realize the possible errors in the data.
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