A summer without end Europe seems to experience, with the Iberian Peninsula entering October with unusually high temperatures for the season, while in central Europe this year’s September was the warmest on record.

Spain and Portugal are facing a new heat wave from today Friday, with the temperature to exceed 35°C in places. The temperature is “unusually high for this time of the year,” explained Spanish weather service Aemet spokesman Ruben del Campo. In many southern cities this afternoon the mercury had exceeded 35 degrees.

The peak of the heat wave is expected at the weekend, when in most parts of the country the temperature will exceed 32-34 degrees. These prices are higher by 5 to 15 degrees compared to the usual for the time.

In neighboring Portugal, from today until Tuesday the thermometers will show temperatures higher than 30°C everywhere, except for the beaches. Although these heatwaves are not comparable to those of the summer, the temperature will be 5-8 degrees higher than usual for the season, explained the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA).

Temperatures will also be high, around 35 degrees, in the south of France, where, according to the Meteo-France meteorological service, September was the warmest ever recorded in the country: compared to the period 1991-2020, the temperatures were higher by 3.5-3.6 points.

The findings of other meteorological services are similar:

  • In Germany, temperatures 3.9 degrees warmer than 1961-1990, according to national weather service DWD
  • In Poland, 3.6 degrees above normal for the season, according to the IMiGW institute
  • In Switzerland, temperature increased by 3.8 degrees compared to the period 1991-2020
  • In Austria, 3.2 degrees higher in the lowlands, 4.2 degrees higher in the mountains, according to the GeoSphere Austria institute.