Morocco’s heatwave has lasted more than nine days, pushing temperatures as much as 13 degrees Celsius above normal July levels across much of the country, the General Directorate of Meteorology said.
Houssine Youabed, the agency’s communications official, told Hespress that the heat was driven by the northward extension of a Saharan thermal low and an influx of hot, dry desert air known locally as chergui.
Temperatures exceeded 40°C across large areas, with Smara recording the country’s highest reading at 47°C. Taroudant, Marrakech, Guelmim and Benguerir registered between 43°C and 45°C.
More than 14 cities exceeded 40°C on Tuesday, with temperatures remaining above that threshold in more than nine cities on Wednesday, Youabed said.
Despite the heatwave’s duration and geographic reach, no monitoring station has broken its July maximum-temperature record.
Conditions are expected to ease gradually from Friday across northern and central Morocco and the Atlantic coast, while heat persists in the southeast and Saharan provinces.
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