Palma. Thursday proved significantly hotter than normal for the month of May in the Balearics with temperatures registering between 6 and 7 degrees above average in Majorca, Maria José Guerrero, the National Weather Agency (AEMET) delegate in the Balearics said yesterday.
At Palma airport on Thursday, thermometer readings were as high as 30.4 degrees but Guerrero was quick to add that this was no record as in 2009, there had been temperatures of almost 35 degrees Centigrade registered at the same location. Forecasts for yesterday were that the heat was going to continue although it was not expected to prompt temperatuers of over 30 degrees.
Significant changes are not expected today, on Sunday, temperatures may even fall by 1 degree and on Monday by two degrees.
Conditions are predicted to hot up again on Tuesday.
Guerrero explained that these recently experienced ultra warm weather conditions are typical of summer and have been prompted by a mass of hot air making its way over from Africa. She said that Majorca has not been affected as much by the air movement as the Peninsula where the North African temperatures have put thermometers up towards the 40 degrees Centigrade mark.
Over the past two days, beaches in the municipality of Palma were witness to local people venturing into the water in earnest for the first time this year, a tradition not usually undertaken in the Balearics until June when the heat sets in.
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