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ARCHIVED - Last month was the wettest May in Murcia for 13 years
8 days of thunderstorms during the month while the temperature reached 37 degrees on the 16th
The unusually unsettled weather in the Costa Cálida last month resulted in the Region of Murcia experiencing its wettest May since 2008, according to the data compiled by Aemet, with an average of 45 millimetres of rain representing almost 50 per cent more than the historical mean for the fifth month of the year.
The wettest parts of the Region were the Campo de Cartagena and the “huerta” around the city of Murcia, and approximately 90 per cent of the month’s rain fell in most parts of the Region on 23rd and 24th May. On the 23rd the weather station in Tentegorra in the outskirts of Cartagena recorded 74 millimetres of rain, while on the same day a cloudburst in San Javier brought 8.4 millimetres in just 10 minutes.
But there were plenty of other wet days, including three episodes of rain falling as mud, and 8 days with thunderstorms.
As for temperatures, daily maximums were higher than usual for May at 2.1 degrees and the highest was the sweltering 37.3 degrees recorded at Los Valientes in Molina de Segura on 16th May, while on the 2nd of the month the minimum at Los Royos in Caravaca dipped to 4.5 degrees.