The town of Tías registered the highest temperature in the Canary Islands during the month of May, according to the Canary Islands Climatological Advance from the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet).
Specifically, the Tías-Las Vegas station, located at an altitude of 376 meters, recorded a temperature of 35.2 degrees on May 26. For its part, the station located at the heliport of La Graciosa registered the eighth highest temperature in the archipelago on May 24 and 26, when 24.4 degrees were reached.
These values coincided with the second heatwave that Lanzarote and the rest of the Canary Islands suffered, which forced the activation of a yellow alert for high temperatures.
Regarding the highest minimum temperatures, the Yaiza-Playa Blanca station registered the sixth highest of all the islands on May 30 with 19.7 degrees. It is followed by La Graciosa, where the seventh highest in the Canary Islands was reached with 19.4 degrees.
Gran Canaria was the island where the highest minimum temperature in the archipelago was recorded. Specifically in San Bartolomé de Tirajana, where the values did not drop below 27 degrees.
In addition, the advance records the number of tropical nights that occurred in the Canary Islands during the month of May. A total of 63 stations on the islands registered these episodes. This is the eighth May with the most tropical nights in the last eleven years.
Average temperature and precipitation in the Canary Islands
The climatological advance reflects that the average temperature in the Canary Islands during the month of May was 18.1 degrees, with an anomaly of +0.2 degrees compared to the reference average. Thus, it has been the twentieth warmest May since 1961.
By provinces, in the eastern one, the maximum temperatures during May registered an average temperature of 23.3 degrees and an anomaly of +0.3, being the seventeenth warmest May since 1961. For its part, the western province registered an average maximum temperature of 20.2 degrees and an anomaly of +0.3.
Regarding minimum temperatures in this past May, the province of Las Palmas registered an average of 15.7 degrees and an anomaly of +0.1. In contrast, that of Santa Cruz de Tenerife reached 12.6 degrees with no anomalies.
Regarding accumulated precipitation, an average of 11.5 mm was recorded in the archipelago, making it a very wet month pluviometrically. The report indicates that this is the eighth wettest May since 1961. In the eastern province, the average precipitation recorded was 1.9 mm and 23 mm in the western one.
Precipitation barely occurred on the islands of Lanzarote (0.2 mm in Haría, on the 8th), La Graciosa (0.4 mm, on the 10th) and Fuerteventura (<0.1 mm at the Airport, on the 8th).
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