The first major heat episode of the year will remain this weekend in much of Spain. In the north, especially in the Cantabrian area, temperatures will fall significantly, with maxims around 20 degrees. In contrast, the South will continue to register up to 40 degrees.
“This weekend the intense heat will continue, unusual for the time of year in most of the country. Although it will already refresh in the Cantabrian, in the rest we will continue to reach more full -summer values than at the end of May or the beginning of June,” Rubén of the Campo Avanza, spokesman for the State Meteorology Agency (AEMET). In addition, he warns of the Formation of strong storms in areas of the peninsular interior.
Saturday will begin after a tropical night in areas of the east and the south of the peninsulawhere the minimums will not fall from 20 degrees. It will refresh in the Cantabrian, especially on the coast, but there will be no major changes in the rest of the country, so the intense and anomalous heat will continue for May. And there will be locally strong storms in the east peninsular.
June will start on Sunday with softer temperatures in the north, especially in the Cantabrian, where the thermometers will not exceed 22 degrees. However, in the valleys of Guadiana and Guadalquivir, maximums of up to 40 degrees will be repeated, punctually even more. All this after a tropical night in the east, central and south of the Peninsula. It will rain in the north, while storms will be formed from noon in large areas of the north and the east, with the possibility of being locally strong.
The first full week of June will begin with a Temperature drop inside the northern half and the west peninsularup to eight degrees compared to Sunday. Even so, the heat will continue in the depression of the Ebro, where the 33 degrees, and areas of the center and the south can be exceeded, which will be around 34.
Tuesday, The thermal descent will be noticed in the west of the peninsula, while a rebound is expected in the eastern third and the Balearic Islands, With more than 35 degrees in the Ebro basin, the interior of the Mediterranean and Mallorca communities. Both days rains are expected in the Cantabrian and storms in points of the interior, especially of the northern half.
Wednesday will also refresh in the east peninsular, while in the rest there will be no changes. “We could say that it would be a day with temperatures, in general, more typical of the time of year, not fresh,” TO From Thursday, everything indicates that the heat starts another escalation And high temperatures in large areas of the country return, with more than 35 degrees in many places.