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I hope not, Spanish agriculture has already taken a huge bashing so far this winter, and people in other parts of Europe have felt the consequences.
Yea, like I said some time ago it was one of the coldest winters on record on the last 20 years and some parts at the interior have been considerably under average and others with historic snowfall or cold.
In 5-6 places from Spain the January cold record was broken, one of them at the interior of the Valencian Community where is a place with many cultivars of vegetables.
Yea I know that thing with the Spanish lettuces in the UK supermarkets, they posted photos of Tesco and other supermarkets which are empty on lettuces but on Spain "we have plenty". But here is also more expensive. Those kinds of cultivars are on the interior so can be affected every X years for a cold wave, and at the same time it's sad that here on the Valencian Coast many oranges are on the ground because they haven't been recollected because many companies pay too low to the landlords and don't accept their rates (which still are low) so they prefer to leave them to fall and to become putrid...
it has been also a controversy specially in the Valencian Community because some companies buy oranges from Morocco and South Africa because they're cheaper than recollecting the ones which are actually here, with some supermarkets involved in this and also because they were doing that and branding the oranges as Spanish while in fact they weren't. sad, that affects local agriculture...
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Very nice, hopefully Madrid gets a nice dusting
I don't think it will arrive to the city of Madrid, but in it's higher altitude surroundings yes (on that map I see that remains very close to the north of the city of Madrid).
At the moment AEMET predicts snow from +800 masl in the Madrid Community and at +600masl more at the north so that map is very precise as most of the upper half of Spain is at 600m or more of altitude.
Yet another warm day in most of continental Europe... with places in continental Europe above average and many well above it. Specially the East & SE.
17ºC in Krakow Airport in Poland... 2.4ºC under their record for February (19.4ºC) and various times above their average (2.5ºC high in February). A late-April early-May alike day in many European parts!
today we had 21.4ºC and it was sunny all the day, the tourists really felt like in their sauce (shorts, t-shirts, also even with tank tops, while the Spanish people was in sweats or at most in t-shirts funny)
28C?! Is that close to a record for early March? Seems quite warm.. amazed how Spain can get constant 20C days in February
Yea, we get some days in a normal year, in a year like 2016 which was above average we got many. Motril this year for example got more than half of February highs above 20ºC, with a day of even 25.4ºC.
In January of 2016 Alicante got 9 +20ºC days (2 with +23ºC) and in February 13, including 2 +25ºC in the 1st half of February. On 2th of March of 2016 Alicante got 27ºC.
In 2015 was 7 in January, 5 in February but again 28.3ºC in 2th of March. 27-28ºC probably is not close to the record but 30ºC would be. Many years when March begins we have 1 warm day. In fact in 2015 Alicante remained at just 0.3ºC from breaking the March record, with 32.7ºC on the 30th of March of 2015 while the overall March record is 33ºC! (source: Clima en Alicante - El Altet Tutiempo)
9 +20ºC days in January of 2016 and 13 +20ºC days in February of 2016 (January and February of 2016 were above average in most of Spain). Then in 2015 were 10 +20ºC days in January of 2015, but just 4 above 20ºC in February of 2015 as February was under average. Btw this is the airport, the city gets even warmer, specially the minimums are quite warmer. In Altea we don't have an AEMET station.
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upcoming days in Altea... 
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