An increase in temperatures along the Costa del Sol was described as switching from “hot to torrid” in an article last week in Sur. And in the case of Malaga and the Costa del Sol, it is accompanied by high humidity levels. “The combination of both variables, temperature and humidity, leads us to conclude that the climate has gone from being hot to torrid during the summer months,” said Enrique Salvo, professor, botanist and director of the chair of climate change at the University of Malaga (UMA). “Either we react now”, he said “or Malaga is going to be an inhospitable city during the summers,” Salvo said.
Professor Salvo pointed out that the temperature of sea water had set an all-time record again this summer, according to the Spanish institute of oceanography (IEO). “The sea is a pressure cooker and this changes the Atlantic currents that have benefited us from a climatic point of view and that cooled us, for example in Marbella and Rincón de la Victoria, and gave us a moderate and comfortable climate.”
“We have to prepare the city, from now until 2050 we have to make an effort to transform it to combat this, with less pavement and more trees,” Salvo said. “Our optimum reaches a maximum point of 35°C: from there we start to be unproductive and the nervous system is affected.”
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