The thermometer that someone puts in the water two miles from the port of l’Estartit, in the Baix Empordà, has been measuring the same thing for more than 50 years: the temperature of the Mediterranean at four different depths. On August 7, 2026, it marked 26 degrees in surface and 24.6 to twenty meters in depth. That is 2.7 and 3.9 degrees above the historical average. Javier Jiménez analyzes it in Xataka on August 11, 2026, in one of the clear…
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The thermometer that someone puts in the water two miles from the port of l’Estartit, in the Baix Empordà, has been measuring the same thing for more than 50 years: the temperature of the Mediterranean at four different depths. On August 7, 2026, it marked 26 degrees in surface and 24.6 to twenty meters in depth. That is 2.7 and 3.9 degrees above the historical average. Javier Jiménez analyzes it in Xataka on August 11, 2026, in one of the clear…