Updated May. 3, 2020 10:08 AM
A few locations in Europe were deluged with an entire season's worth of rainfall in April that will not only shape the end of spring but could also influence the forecast going into the summer.
Some Europe cities, like Dublin, Rome and Berlin, were missed by multiple storms during April, leading to a drier-than-normal month. However, the stormy pattern that set up over the Iberian Peninsula produced wetter-than-normal conditions.
"A total of 263 mm (10.35 inches) of rain fell in Barcelona, well over the normal amount for the month of April," said AccuWeather Meteorologist Tyler Roys.
Barcelona's average April rainfall is about 41.9 mm (1.65 inches).
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This year's rainfall in April not only ended up being an astonishing 600 percent of normal, but it is also more rain than the city of Barcelona gets during the entire meteorological spring (March 1 - May 31).
Instances of flooding were reported all over northeastern Spain, several times throughout the month of April.
The rounds of wet weather also kept those social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic from taking a walk outdoors.
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But northeastern Spain was not the only Iberian Peninsula location to have an entire spring's worth of rainfall.
The rain that fell in Lisbon, Portugal, totaled a whopping 175.7 mm (6.9 inches) of rain, more than four times the normal rainfall amount in April. This amount also surpasses the average spring rainfall threshold of 158 mm (6.2 inches).
"What makes this an even more extreme case for the Iberian Peninsula is that this phenomenal rainfall followed an already wetter-than-normal March," added Roys.
From the start of March through the end of April, Lisbon's accumulated rainfall fell just short of the 200 mm (7.9 inches) at 199.6 mm.
Although Madrid was well short of reaching the all-season average of 128 mm (5 inches) during the month of April, the combined rainfall from March and April has already topped the average at 129 mm of rain so far this spring, with the whole month of May still to go.
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Going forward, much of the Iberian Peninsula will get a break from wet weather with a surge of early-summer warmth at the start of May.
"After a rather uneventful early May, one or two storms are forecast to target the region in the middle of the month. These storms could bring some heavy rainfall as well as yield some cooler conditions," said Roys.
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The month is forecast to end with more summerlike warmth and dry conditions.
Rain coming at this time of year is a double-edged sword for the area. More persistent wet weather will keep things green and wet longer, delaying the start of the fire season.
"It is almost inevitable that it will get hot and dry during the summer, given the climate of the region. When that occurs after a wetter spring, the excessive brush just becomes available as fuel to any wildfire that starts," Roys said.
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