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Joris Meys

2. Not just the past days, but the whole summer the temperatures in the Mediterranean were warmer than average. Due to the extra evaporation, this gives a bunch of humid air hanging around above the mediterranean.

You can find the temperature anomalies for the Mediterranean Sea on this website : ceam.es/ceamet/SST/SST-anomaly

A map showing the daily anomaly in sea surface temperatures for the Mediterranean for october 29th, 2024. Below is a colorscale going from darkblue over white to darkred, indicating an anomaly between -8 and +8 degrees celsius. On the map you see that almost the entire mediterranean is lightyellow to dark orange, indicating an anomaly of +1 to almost +3 degrees. Only to the east of the street of gibraltar there's a small colder zone with an anomaly if -1 degree.
31 October at 12:11 | Open on mstdn.social
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Joris Meys

3. A low pressure area is circling in front of the coast of Portugal, and that circulation drags all this moist air over the mountains surrounding Valencia. In the satellite images you can see a plume of very cold and wet air rise right above Valencia. This is caused by the wet mass of air above the mediterranean that is dragged over the mountains by the circulation west of Portugal. Quickly rising air cools down, and this causes the intense rains.

31 October at 12:18 | Open on mstdn.social
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