Officially, summer ends on Monday when heavy rainfalls are predicted in some parts of the islands.
Heavy showers hit some parts of Minorca and Majorca in the afternoon and temperatures reduced suddenly by 8ºC within four hours. The temperature at 12.30a.m. in Majorca was 30ºC maximum but fell to 21.8ºC by 5pm. This summer had been warmer and drier so far and Agustin Jansa, head of Balearic Meteorological Office, said that the rains will be welcomed. Jansa added that the 1.5ºC rise of temperature on an average this month is in keeping with the climate change and also that the while the average rainfall had been low.
Though there had been the usual storms that occur at the end of summer, only four litres of rainfall has been registered during some weeks in the past. At Porto Pi. Palma, 10 litres rain was recorded this month which is 17 litres below the normal rainfall.
Because of the unusual wet spring this year, the water supplies were not much affected by the dry and hot summer. Moreover, the short torrential showers which are expected to come shortly would help to replenish the water reservoirs.
About 20 litres of rain flooded in just 1 hour in a number of parts of Majorca and 27 litres of rain fell in just ten minutes in Porreres yesterday causing flash flooding.
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