The months of July and August remain the warmest on the calendar in Cuba, despite the national maximum temperature of 40.1 degrees on April 11.
Several absolute national records for maximum temperature were recorded since 1999 in the fourth month of the year, the most recent in the town of Jucarito, in the eastern Cuban province of Granma.
Dr. Ramón Pérez Suárez, researcher at the Climate Center of the Institute of Meteorology, explained that the determining factor for this classification is the average monthly temperature, and the levels in July and August far exceed those in April.
July 2023 reported an average of 29.1 degrees Celsius and became the hottest of all months in Cuba, starting in 1951. However, that primacy very soon passed to August of the same year, when that variable reached extreme value of 29.6 degrees.
Thus, the summer of 2023 was the warmest in history in the Greater Antilles, stated the specialist.
Recent research, he said, confirms that in the Cuban climate there is a growing trend towards an increase in the average annual temperature, with an increase of around one degree Celsius, from 1951 to date.
Such behavior is conditioned, mainly, by the increase in average minimums (most notable between December and February), although in the last three decades the rise in average maximums is also notable.
