May in the Canary Islands was almost one degree warmer than normal. According to the report of the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet), the province of Las Palmas suffered the seventh warmest May since 1961 and the average of the autonomous community was the eleventh warmest in the Archipelago.
The scales used by the Aemet Delegation in the Canary Islands place it as a warm month in temperature and normal in terms of rainfall. Despite this, the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife accumulates most of the rainfall, being less frequent in the eastern islands.
By provinces, the maximum temperature in Las Palmas was on average 1.1 degrees warmer than normal, being the ninth warmest since data collection began in 1961. Also the minimums were warmer than usual, with an anomaly of six degrees Celsius upwards.
The presence of an Atlantic storm north of the archipelago meant a "marked" rise in temperature. The highest of the month was recorded at the station of Las Vegas-Tías, at 376 meters altitude and reached 30.9 degrees. At that time, it brought with it a slight period of haze during the past May 2.
The south of Lanzarote and the Chinijo Archipelago were the ones that detected a greater climatic anomaly, with between five degrees Celsius and one and a half degrees warmer than usual.
Also, the accumulated precipitation on the island was below five millimeters during the month of May. However, most of it is concentrated in the northeast of the island, over Arrecife and the eastern part of Teguise.
The hydrological year of the province of Las Palmas is the eighth driest since 1961, with a total precipitation of 82.7 millimeters between October 2022 and last March. It is also the warmest and driest in history. The periods of rain are more frequent in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, but they are still less humid than usual.
In islands like Lanzarote, the scarcity of rainfall is clearly seen, being below 100 millimeters between October 1 and May 31.
