The season of storm 2025-26 has made meteorological history after the passage of Samuelwhich left hurricane gusts in the Pyrenees and a very adverse maritime storm in the Balearic Islands. The State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) has now focused on Theresethe nineteenth high-impact storm of the season. With its formation, the previous record of seventeen appointments reached in the 2023-24 cycle is surpassed, which has forced the authorities to now prepare a extraordinary list of names for future phenomena.
Immediate impact in the Canary Islands
Canary Islands It will become the epicenter of the storm starting this Tuesday. Therese will hit the archipelago with rains, strong storms, intense winds and sea storms. Widespread rainfall is expected, which may be locally heavy or very heavy with weekly accumulated that could exceed 100-150 l per square meter in La Palma, Tenerife and Gran Canaria, accompanied by thunderstorms and hail, reports Meteored. In addition, the snow could return to Teide and the palm tree peaks, while the Winds in exposed areas will exceed 90-100 km/h.
Weather on the Peninsula
For their part, peninsular Spain and the Balearic Islands will experience a transition marked by two very different phases. Until Thursday, a unusually soft environmentwith temperatures above 25 degrees in cities like Bilbao. In the rest of the territory, temperatures will range between 18 and 20 degreeswith mostly clear skies. On Wednesday there could be some stormy showers in the west and in areas of Andalusia, Ceuta and Badajoz.
The panorama will take a notable turn starting on Thursday. Meteored indicates that the weakening of the anticyclonic blockade that has accompanied us will allow the entry of low pressures and a much colder air mass, both of Atlantic and Mediterranean origin, placing Spain at the center of a episode of strong instability.
He Thursday they wait fordownpours and some storms in western Andalusia, Extremadura and Ceuta associated with the Atlantic storm that will approach the Peninsula. Facing the weekenda, the showers could extend to more inland areas, northeast, Balearic Islands and Andalusiaand may be locally intense and stormy. Furthermore, a generalized drop in temperatures and snowfall in the main mountain rangesespecially in the Pyrenees since Friday.
Therese sets an “absolute record”
List expansion
After Therese, only the names of Vitor and Wilma on the official list. Faced with the possibility of exhausting the repertoire, the meteorological agencies of southwestern Europe have already agreed on the creation of an extra list with five additional names, whose initials will go from A to E, to guarantee the identification of any new storm that may arise in the remainder of the season.