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During the second weekend of November 2024, the Spanish Canary Islands were affected by a light haze and record-breaking temperatures for the month.

La Aldea de San Nicolás, a municipality of the island of Gran Canaria, reached 35.7°C on 9 November. This surpasses the previous record set in 2023, when the Islands were hit by the warmest temperatures for the month of November up to that point. Meteorologists have attributed the haze and heatwave to a combination of warm air masses and Saharan dust carried by eastward-moving winds.

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Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. Credit: European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery

The heatwave continued on 10 November. In Gran Canaria, visible in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image from the same day, the air temperature exceeded 34°C.

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Featured image credit: European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery

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