Date Published: 27/08/2020
ARCHIVED - Polar air will bring a sharp drop in temperatures at the weekend across Spain
ARCHIVED ARTICLE Heavy rains are predicted for some areas of Spain; Catalonia has already activated emergency weather protocols in anticipation of up to 40 litres in half an hour!
Murcia and eastern Andalusia could catch the edge of it
After a week of high temperatures and heat warnings a sharp drop in temperatures anywhere between 10 and 15 degrees compared to Thursday is expected at the weekend.
Appropriately, as we move from August into September, the new weather front brings weather more typical of autumn than August, and is the result of the entry of a mass of cold polar air that will reach higher latitudes and cause a drop in temperature and strong storms in the northern half of the Spanish peninsula and a generalised drop elsewhere.
The drop in temperature will even reach the offshore islands, where it will be more pronounced on Saturday.
On Sunday temperatures will continue to fall in the southeast of the peninsula and in both archipelagos, with both day and overnight temperatures falling.
The heat this week has been almost suffocating in some parts of Spain, especially in the Canary Islands where La Aldea de San Nicolás (Las Palmas) reached 43.2ºC on Wednesday. The mainland has also experienced extreme heat, the highest being 41.6ºC in Villarobledo (Albacete) and in Écija, (Seville).
This Thursday temperatures continue to be high in the peninsula and the Balearic Islands where thermometers will reach more than 36 degrees in the Ebro basin and in the interior of Mallorca; They will be above 38 in the central, and southern areas of the peninsula and in the interior of the Levante communities, and will even exceed 40 in the Guadalquivir valley, especially in the Sevillian and Cordovan countryside.
Despite the heat of this week, temperatures will begin to drop this Friday. The minimums will do so in the north and west of the peninsula, while the maximums will do so in an almost generalized way in the peninsula with the exception of the Mediterranean coast.
The situation will continue the same throughout Spain until Friday, when the arrival of a cold air mass at high latitudes will cause a generalised fall in termperatures, of between 10 and 15 degrees in the north and in the center of the peninsula, and also in the Canary Islands.
At the end of the week it will rain in the Cantabrian Pyrenees and in other areas of Catalonia, Aragon and the North of the Valencian community and there could also be heavy showers accompanied by hail on Saturday extending to the Balearic Islands, the rest of the Valencian community and perhaps points in Murcia and eastern Andalusia.
In Catalonia the Inuncat emergencies protocols have already been activated in anticipation of intense rains.
The rains, which may be accompanied by a storm, hail and strong gusts of wind, will especially affect the inland regions of Girona, Central Catalonia, Tarragona and southern Barcelona, where up to 40 liters are expected to fall per square meter in half an hour. That’s heavy!
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