British tourists heading to Mallorca warned ‘this summer will be different’

British tourists heading to Majorca this summer have been warned that this summer will be different. Britons flying abroad to the Balearic Island holiday hotspot, which is a territory of Spain and a stone’s throw from Menorca and Ibiza, have been warned.

Britons hoping to soak up the summer sun in Majorca, or Majorca, have been told to expect a “cooler summer”. The astronomical summer begins on June 20 and will be a summer marked by the influence of “La Niña”, the cooling of the equatorial waters of the Pacific Ocean.

The deputy spokesman for the Balearic dating agency Aemet, Bernat Amengual, says there is a transition phase from “El Niño” to “La Niña”, the latter being characterized by cooler sea temperatures. He warned that they influence the climate of the whole world.

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“But in the most remote areas they do it in a more indirect way,” he said. The effect of La Niña will not be felt until the summer of 2025, and Aemet’s models predict that the average maximum temperature will be lower this summer than in 2022 and 2023.

The forecast average is 32C. In 2023 it was up to 34 and 35C. Lower than last year but still above normal which is 31C. Amengual adds that La Niña should be beneficial for water supplies because it usually leads to wetter periods compared to El Niño.

There has been less rainfall than usual in Mallorca in recent months. The warnings come after Mallorca’s airport runways were flooded following heavy rain. Flights were unable to take off and land at Mallorca’s international airport following heavy rain that hit the popular Spanish holiday island.

Most flights were either delayed or cancelled, causing travel chaos in Europe. Yellow weather warnings are also in place for the interior of the island and the neighboring island of Ibiza.