The heat continues unabated: tomorrow it will reach 40°C in the Empordà region.

BarcelonaWe find ourselves immersed in a heat wave that is bringing this June close to the top of the hottest on record, with many consecutive days of abnormally warm temperatures everywhere... both day and night. This situation will continue into Wednesday but could ease between Thursday and Friday, with a new spike in temperatures over the weekend. All of this is happening in a context of very stable, sunny weather, now without the extensive showers and thunderstorms of recent days (you'll find all the rainfall and heat data at the end of this report).

Wednesday: marked temperature rise on the coast and in the northern pre-coast

Tuesday's highs were particularly high in the west and around Barcelona, ​​but on Wednesday, the heat will be felt throughout the coast and in the central and northern pre-coast due to its high temperatures. Furthermore, the sun will once again be the main feature, and only a few showers will fall in the western Pyrenees, with no storms or hail expected as in previous days.

The Catalan Meteorological Service maintains an intense heat warning affecting some coastal regions of Tarragona (Tarragonès and Baix Penedès) and the coast and pre-coast of Barcelona and Girona.

Thursday: The heat eases temporarily

The weather will remain stable on Thursday, with sunshine once again taking center stage, interrupted only by a few light cloudy spells. The only difference will be a slight drop in temperature compared to the beginning of the week, although there will be no noticeable improvement, and this will be merely a mirage awaiting the renewed warmth that will arrive over the weekend.

Heat and storm balance

Sunday's storms left 53 l/m² in Guardiola de Berguedà, 44 in Montesquiu and 42 in Orís (both municipalities in Osona), accumulations similar to those of Monday (56 l/m² In addition, on both days the precipitation was locally accompanied by thunderstorms and hail or stones, which caused damage to crop fields. During the afternoon of Saint John's Day, the storms were especially intense in Cerdanya, Ripollès and Cerdanya, with 48 l/m² In Guardiola de Berguedà, 31 in Núria (Ripollès) and 23 in Das (Cerdanya).

Temperatures also rose sharply on a San Juan that we will remember for its unbridled heat, with very high maximums everywhere. Of note were 40.5°C in Castellnou de Seana (Pla d'Urgell), 40.3°C in Torres de Segre (Segrià) and 40°C in Torroja de Priorat, Mollerussa (Pla d'Urgell) and Seròs (Segrià). The mercury also rose sharply on the central coast and pre-coast, with 37.6°C in Terrassa, 37.2°C in Sabadell and 35.8°C at the Fabra Observatory in Barcelona. This is the warmest Midsummer's Day since 1914 and the second warmest June day in the century-long series.