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San Bartolomé de Tirajana is a village and a Spanish municipality in the south-eastern part of the island of Gran Canaria in the Las Palmas province in the Canary Islands. With an area of 333.13 km 2 (128.62 sq mi), [ 1 ] San Bartolomé de Tirajana is the largest municipality in area on the island as well as the Canary Islands .
The average annual temperature is 17.8 °C, the hottest month being August at 21.8 °C and the coldest January at 14.4 °C. [ 6 ] As for rainfall, Firgas registers an average of 268 mm per year, with the rainiest months being November and December with 54 mm, and the driest months being July and August with 1 mm. [ 6 ]
The month of July 2023 was the hottest month on record globally. [21] September 2023 was the most anomalously warm month, averaging 1.75 °C (3.15 °F) above the preindustrial average for September. [ 22 ]
Last month was the hottest January on record, despite an emerging “La Nina” weather pattern that cools global temperatures, scientists have said. January 2025 was 0.79C above the 1991-2020 ...
Hot desert climates and hot semi-desert climates can also be found in the Canary Islands, most notably on the islands of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, but also in the coastal areas of Gran Canaria and in the south of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. On the remaining islands, this climate is also present, but in a much smaller portion.
The Dutch concentrated on Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, attempting to burn it down. The Dutch pillaged Maspalomas, on the southern coast of Gran Canaria, San Sebastián on La Gomera, and Santa Cruz on La Palma, but eventually gave up the siege of Las Palmas and withdrew. Christian prisoners are sold as slaves in a square in Algiers.
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Various heat records have been broken, [1] with July being the hottest month ever recorded. [2] Scientists have attributed the heat waves to man-made climate change. [1] [2] Another cause is the El Niño phenomena which began to develop in 2023. [3] However, recent findings show that climate change is exacerbating the strength of El Niño. [4]