Lanzarote has recorded the second highest temperature in the Canary Islands. The climatological advance of the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet), with respect to last August, collects that the municipality of Tías reached 42.8 degrees on the 10th, in the middle of a heat wave that left nights above 26 degrees on the island.
The Canary Islands suffered an intense warm episode from August 5. At that time, the Atlantic anticyclone moved to the west of the Azores, while an African ridge, warm and with light haze at altitude, arrived in the Canary Islands. The heat forced the authorities to issue red and orange warnings in Lanzarote
The peak of the heat wave occurred on August 10, when the average temperature suffered an anomaly of 6.2 degrees, standing at 29.2 degrees.
According to records, the municipalities of Tías and Tinajo exceeded 40 degrees on August 9 and 10. On August 9, after 3:30 p.m., Tinajo reached 41.3 degrees, that day Tías recorded 40.7 around 4:20 p.m. In the afternoon. The next day, around 12:00 noon, Tinajo recorded 41.4 degrees.
The municipalities of Lanzarote were on average above 22 degrees throughout the month of August. In some areas, even, the average temperature exceeded 24 and 26 degrees. The greatest anomalies occurred in the north of the island, that is, in the municipality of Haría, as well as in La Graciosa and the Chinijo Archipelago and part of the municipality of Tías.