The week will begin with persistent rain in the communities of Cantabria and Galicia, according to forecasts from the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet). A front associated with a thunderstorm will leave overcast skies on the Peninsula and abundant clouds on the Balearic Islands on Monday. Subsequently, the cloud cover will cause “substantial rainfall” in the north of the peninsula, which will spread less intensely towards the south in the afternoon and could reach the Balearic Islands by the end of the day. Aemet does not rule out some isolated storms and has activated the yellow alert in Cantabria, Navarra and the Basque Country. It also did the same in 16 other provinces due to the very strong gusts of wind that will hit especially the eastern part of the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands.
It is possible that water accumulations may occur due to persistent rainfall in the areas of the Central System and the northern Iberian Cordillera. In the Canary Islands there will be cloudy intervals with the possibility of sporadic light rain in the central islands. There will be a second day of haze which, in addition to reducing visibility, worsens air quality. “High concentrations” of dust are expected in Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, and in the first part of the day also in Tenerife and Gran Canaria. He will start to recover from Tuesday, according to forecasts.
The Aemet has activated the yellow warning for winds of up to 80 kilometers per hour in Almería, Granada, Jaén, Teruel, Zaragoza, A Coruña, Lugo, Asturian coast, Burgos, Soria, Albacete, La Rioja, Las Pitiusas, Mallorca, Alicante, Valencia, Murcia and Melilla. Winds will be moderate to strong on the Cantabrian coast, Alborán, in the Gulf of Valencia and in the south of the Balearics, with very strong gusts likely in Ibiza. Inside the peninsula it will blow with weak to moderate intensity, with very strong gusts likely on the southern and eastern coasts of the Mediterranean, on the Iberian mountain range and on other mountain chains of the Mediterranean arc. In the Canary Islands, east winds with moderate intensity will prevail.
A “significant increase in minimum temperatures” is expected in the southern plateau areas, the Mediterranean side and Mallorca. “On the shores of the Mediterranean, temperatures will exceed 20 degrees Celsius,” says Rubén Del Campo, spokesperson for Aemet. Highs will drop in the far north and high areas of the southern half of the peninsula. Temperatures will rise in the Canary Islands, although they will start to drop on Tuesday.
Starting from Tuesday, temperatures will begin a drop which will continue until Thursday, with night frosts in the interior of the peninsula, which will ease over the weekend. Tomorrow the rains will continue in the northern third, abundantly in Cantabria, the Basque Country and northern Navarra. It will also rain in the areas of eastern Andalusia and more lightly in the other mountainous areas of the Peninsula. There will be showers in the Balearic Islands and more stable weather in the rest. Snow levels are also expected to drop to 1,200 meters in the northern half and 700 meters in the Pyrenees. In the Navarrese and Aragonese Pyrenees, snow accumulations could affect the roads in the area. The intense wind will also continue in the eastern areas and in the Balearic Islands.
The temperature drop will continue on Wednesday. As Del Campo explains: “The amount and intensity of the rain will decrease, which today will be limited to the Cantabrian Sea, the Upper Ebro, the Balearics and the Pyrenees, where it will snow at low altitudes.” The dawn will be characterized by intense frosts in the Pyrenean area and frosts are also expected in the north and east of the Peninsula. Del Campo predicts that León and Teruel will be around two degrees below zero. In the north and east of the peninsula, maximum temperatures will not exceed 10 or 12 degrees. Málaga and Almería will be around 8pm at noon.
Thursday and Friday will be days with stable and cold weather at dawn, although temperatures will begin to rise on Friday. Del Campo specifies: “We will wake up to frost in much of the hinterland, which in the northern plateau and central moors could be between two and four degrees below zero.” In the central hours of the day, temperatures on Thursday will still remain below 10 degrees in large parts of the northern half and also in the central areas, but on Friday the 10 degree barrier will be generally exceeded and in southern Andalusia they will reach 18 degrees. A new front could cause rain in Galicia and on the Cantabrian side on Friday.
Looking ahead to the weekend, Del Campo warns that there is still uncertainty about the forecast, but that the most likely thing is “that temperatures will continue to rise, with a reduction in the intensity and extent of frosts and with rain more likely in the northern third of the peninsula and in the Balearic Islands”.
