2023-08-14 05:26:53
Morocco has set a new heat record. As the North African country’s weather authorities announced on Sunday, the temperature in the southern coastal city of Agadir climbed to 50.4 degrees on Friday. That surpassed the 49.9 degrees recorded on July 13 in the Western Sahara town of Smara.
“The heatwave is being caused by the influx of hot and dry air from the south, leading to a significant rise in temperatures, ranging between 5 and 13 degrees above the monthly average,” the Moroccan weather service said in a statement.
The heat wave had led to forest fires in northern Morocco in the past few days. For the coming days, the meteorologists predict slightly falling temperatures for the northern regions of Africa.
The hottest July on record
July was by far the hottest month on Earth since records began. According to the European earth observation program Copernicus, the average global air temperature last month was 0.33 degrees higher than in the previous record month of July 2019, when the global average temperature was 16.63 degrees.
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