There is no precedent for a winter as warm as the one that just ended. This is stated by the Valencian delegation of the Spanish Meteorological Agency. The temperatures in December, January and February in Valencian territory have been 2.3 degrees higher than the average. The season has also been very dry, with 71% less rain than would be normal at this time.
The delegate of the Aemet, Jorge Tamayo, has detailed regarding rainfall that this winter 35.9 liters per square meter have accumulated, "71% less than the average for the 1991-2020 period (12.1 l/m2). "It has not been the driest of the series, but it is quite below normal," he stated.
"Practically, it only rained significantly on January 19, under the influence of Storm Juan, although in general they were weak and short-lived rains. The rest of the winter there have been some episodes in February but it has not been a rainy period. ", has added.
The average temperature has been 10.9ºC, when the average is 8.6ºC. Winter was the only season of the year in the Community that still held the record in the 20th century, but this one from 2023-24 has superseded the one from 1965-66. 2022 recorded the warmest autumn and summer in history and in 2023 the record was broken in spring.
Also in the capitals, with more than one hundred years of data, winter has been the warmest since at least 1869 in Alicante and Valencia (in this case, tied with 2016), and since at least 1912 in Castellón de la Plana.
Since December 1, there have been up to eight notable warm peaks and no cold wave in Valencian territory, although a couple of slightly cold episodes can be seen in mid-December and between January 8 and 13 and, now outside the winter quarter , during the first decade of March.
The only significant rainfall occurred on January 19, under the influence of Storm Juan, although the most notable phenomenon it produced was the sea storm. In February there was another brief episode of widespread rainfall, generally weak, on the 8th and 9th, caused by the effects of Storm Karlotta.
The winter has been very dry in 85% of the territory and dry in the rest, in the interior of Valencia and in the northern interior of Alicante. Until March 14, it is the driest hydrological year since there are records, that is, since at least 1950. On average, during the four-month period 57.1 liters per square meter have accumulated, when the normal would be 262.3 ; The average accumulated deficit is 78%. It is the area, along with some of the Regions of Murcia and Almería, that has accumulated the most deficit.
On December 12, the Alicante town of Novelda registered 29 degrees, the highest temperature ever recorded in the month of December in the Valencian Community. In January there were minimums of 18 degrees on the 16th in Valencia, a very high temperature for the first month of the year.
