“…There is a generalized agreement within the scientific community on the warming conditions predominant in most of the Mediterranean basin during last decades, where a general increase on average temperatures has been recorded (Repapis et al, 2004;Brunetti et al, 2006;Alpert et al, 2008;Camuffo et al, 2010;Homar et al, 2010). Nevertheless, past evolution and future projections for precipitation are more variable than those of temperature, and present a very high spatiotemporal variability (Sumner et al, 2003;Alpert et al, 2008;Philandras et al, 2011;Quintana-Seguí et al, 2011), which may create more complex drought patterns. In this sense, many studies have addressed meteorological drought patterns analysis within the western Mediterranean region using in-situ observations (Lana et al, 2001;Bonaccorso et al, 2003;VicenteSerrano et al, 2004;Di Lena et al, 2014) and, although they showed predominant drying conditions since the decade of 1970, in most cases they did not found significant trends in the evolution of drought indices.…”