TEMPERATURES OF SPANISH COASTAL WATERS HIT RECORD HIGHS

The temperature of the waters off Spain's Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts has hit record highs in June, according to measurements taken by the country's network of deep-sea buoys. For the first three weeks of June between 2007 and 2017, the water temperature varied between 0.5ºC and 2.5ºC. The biggest increase has been in the Mediterranean, where a buoy moored off the coast of Tarragona registered a 2.5ºC increase in June of 2016, reaching a record 27ºC, the highest throughout the country, June, which has been among the hottest in 50 years in Spain, has seen record water temperatures along Spain's Atlantic Cantabrian coast and off Cabo Silleiro, in Galica, recording 19.9ºC, up 1.25ºC from last year.