Born in Tarragona in 1969, Enric Aguilar Anfrons has been linked to the Rovira i Virgili University since its creation. He is a climatologist by profession and has held a doctorate since 2000, with a thesis that studied climate change in Antarctica. A large part of his career has been linked to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a United Nations agency for weather, water, and climate. Aguilar is the director of the University Institute for Research on Sustainability, Climate Change and Energy Transition (IU-RESCAT).

Summer has started extraordinarily early this year. Different indicators reveal that for some weeks now we have been living in full summer temperatures, even though we have not even reached June 15 yet. ARA has used details from all 87 Meteocat stations, and adding up the number of days each reached at least 30ºC, we saw this had happened 658 times before June 10. This figure alone means nothing, but in comparison with previous years it shows how exceptional this is. On average, at this time of year there are 30ºC has been reached 122 times. In 2022 the figure is almost double the previous record, which was 2015.

Late frosts are not a rare phenomenon, but the recent cold snap has been truly remarkable. Out of the 153 Meteocat stations which have over ten years of data, 124 have broken their record for the month of April. Even looking at older records, the precedents for such low temperatures in the fourth month of the year are scarce.