Maps created by Avamet reveal the brutal temperature drop in Marina Alta. One map compares temperatures from Thursday morning, the hottest of the year, with those recorded at 11:00 PM on the same day. In the early morning, locations like Dénia and El Ràfol reached 39 degrees, the highest in the Valencian Community, while most of the region suffered lows above 30 degrees.
A storm that swept through the region on Thursday afternoon caused a radical change. Temperatures dropped drastically, and most stations in the area did not exceed 25 degrees, with some coastal points even reaching twenty.
A third map from Aemet details the location of lightning strikes during the storm. In Marina Alta, 36 lightning strikes were recorded, and according to initial hypotheses, one of them may have caused the Llíber forest fire. Fortunately, the fire was quickly extinguished, although it necessitated closing the road to Gata.
Other Valencian regions recorded a significantly higher number of lightning strikes during the same storm, notably La Canal de Navarrés with 335 and Valle de Cofrentes-Ayora with 334.
