[Ian Williams]

Looking at current models it would seem southern Spain are set for a hot weekend, especially Friday and Saturday as High Pressure in the Med drags up hot air from Africa. 850mb temps around 18C for Andalusia, resulting in possible 30C for the likes of perhaps Seville and Andujar. This warm upper air could clip the SE of the UK but current GFS models suggest it will just miss us. The freezing level for example over Andalusia on Saturday 2nd is a whopping 3600m.

Portugal and France will also feel the effects too.

[Mesogeiakos]

Just a note for Greece,so far March has been colder than January and Feb for most areas of the country in mean temps due to the prolonged cold snap earlier this month

[Ian Williams]

Yes Malaga was warm yesterday as was Estepona who had an hourly max of 24.7C. I make the Port of Malaga hourly minimum as 15.9C. Oliva pipped Estepona as the warmest in Europe yesterday with 25.0C.

Not as warm in Andalucia today currently only Jerez and Malaga that have scraped past 20C.

Malaga Port hourly temps 21Z 27th to 09Z 28th March below

[Ian Williams]

Here are yesterdays Daily figures for the 28th March 2011.

[Ian Williams]

Here are the current temps at 1400 GMT

[Mesogeiakos]

Ian will u be doing a seperate thread come May for Attica vs Andalusia?

[Ian Williams]

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Mesogeiakos - 29/3/2011 23:07 Ian will u be doing a seperate thread come May for Attica vs Andalusia?

Oh Yes! Definitely, That will be my main thread, this one i have managed some time on just lately due to being on nights with some time on my hand, so dont worry about that. This thread i will post or update just once or maybe twice a week. I look forward to the battle of the GIANTS! But August last year will take some beating eh? 

[Ian Williams]

A clean sweep for Spain yesterday over Greece. Im sure Greece will soon fight back though!

[Ian Williams]

Getting warm across parts of Crete and southern Spain

[Ian Williams]

Very warm across southern Spain yesterday. However it wasnt a Spanish white wash like the day before, with Crete warming up nicely, albeit slowly

[Mesogeiakos]

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Ian Williams - 29/3/2011 23:16

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Mesogeiakos - 29/3/2011 23:07 Ian will u be doing a seperate thread come May for Attica vs Andalusia?

Oh Yes! Definitely, That will be my main thread, this one i have managed some time on just lately due to being on nights with some time on my hand, so dont worry about that. This thread i will post or update just once or maybe twice a week. I look forward to the battle of the GIANTS! But August last year will take some beating eh? 

It will be hard to see an August 2010 scenario bsc both Attica and Andalusia were close to their all time mean records DURING THE SAME PERIOD

[Ian Williams]

True Pit, but one of them may break a record, agreed it were very strange and probably rare for them both to be record breakers and in the same month and year.

Very warm across inland Andalucia atm,

Jerez 28.4C
Seville 28.4C
Moron 27.9C
Andujar 27.4C

[Ian Williams]

Both Seville and Moron De La Frontera got up to at least 29.2C and Andujar 29.1C on the hourly obs, possibly one of them may have our first 30C max of the year. Hottest place so far this year was Murcia Observatory with 29.2C, on the 26th February and this was a new site record for February.

[Ian Williams]

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Ian Williams - 31/3/2011 20:24 Both Seville and Moron De La Frontera got up to at least 29.2C and Andujar 29.1C on the hourly obs, possibly one of them may have our first 30C max of the year. Hottest place so far this year was Murcia Observatory with 29.2C, on the 26th February and this was a new site record for February.

Just a very quick glimpse at AEMET, 30c wasnt breached, ut still hot for the time of year. Andujar 29.7C making it the hottest daily recorded temperature so far this year.

Andujar 29.7C

Moron 29.5C

Seville 29.3C

And another glimpse around, and  Ierapetra on Crete may of recorded the highest minimum of the year sofar with a low of 16.7C

[Ian Williams]

Well here are the end of March figures with round one going to Spain. Andujar recorded a max of 29.7C the hottest so far this year. Yesterday also saw some warm minimums With Fuengirola 17.2C, Palaiohora 17.0C and Ierapetra 16.7C and Karpathos 16.2C

Now lets see what April brings!

[Mesogeiakos]

About the same with Jan and Feb for Greece the means due to the cold spell.In fact in some areas even colder than January!

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Mesogeiakos - 1/4/2011 15:55 About the same with Jan and Feb for Greece the means due to the cold spell.In fact in some areas even colder than January!

Indeed Pit, Not having studied Euro temps in the winter and spring, i take it Greeces temps for March are indeed unusual, especially the cold spell and the lack of any warm spell, with the exception of Heraklion that had its moments.

[Ian Williams]

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Ian Williams - 28/3/2011 19:35 Looking at current models it would seem southern Spain are set for a hot weekend, especially Friday and Saturday as High Pressure in the Med drags up hot air from Africa. 850mb temps around 18C for Andalusia, resulting in possible 30C for the likes of perhaps Seville and Andujar. This warm upper air could clip the SE of the UK but current GFS models suggest it will just miss us. The freezing level for example over Andalusia on Saturday 2nd is a whopping 3600m. Portugal and France will also feel the effects too.

30C Breached

1700 Local time temps, so the max may not of been realised yet

Andujar 31.4C

Seville 30.2C

Close behind Moron 29.9C