Some interesting facts about Spanish weather

Did you know that some 10-20 people die each year in Spain from lightening bolts? OR that around 10,000 storms are recorded in an average year?

Spain has an average altitude of 660 metres. Only Switzerland, with an average altitude of 1,300 metres, is higher.

The record number of bolts of lightning counted in one day in Spain is 60,201 on 17th August, 2003.

Oddly, the wettest village in Spain is not on the Atlantic coast but in Andalucia. Grazalema in the Sierra de Grazalema in the province of Cadiz has an average of 2,153 mm of rain a year. The warm, humid winds blow in from the Atlantic and cool and condense as they pass over these limestone peaks.

 
Hours of sunshine vary in Spain from 1,700 on the Cantabrian coast up to more than 3,000 in the South and the Canaries.

Murcia had highest recorded temperature of 47.2 °C / 117.0 °F

Coldest temperature recorded in Spain was -32°C in Lago Estangento in the Pyrenees

The highest section of the Pyrenees qualifies as an Alpine climate.

 
Cabo de Gata which is reported to be the driest place in Europe.

Highest mountain in continental Spain is Mulhacén, in Granada, Andalucía, at 3,481 m

Spain is a world leader in wind energy technologies, second only to Germany and ahead of the USA?

Wettest place in Spain? - Near Santiago de Compostella in the north with a whopping 110mm of rain in October - from www.kyero.com