The month of March says goodbye with a very intense winter episode that will test numerous regions of the country.
The confluence of a air mass of polar origin over the Peninsula and a slow pressure system in the Mediterranean this Sunday will generate a scenario of general instability, with the wind as the main protagonist and a notable drop in thermometers.
The skies will remain covered in the northern third, in the mountainous environments of the center and in the Balearic Islands, while in the rest of the territory will alternate clear with cloudy intervals.
The wind will blow with special virulence in the eastern half of the peninsula and in the Balearic archipelago. Very strong gusts with a northern component are expected in large areas, which could locally become hurricanes in points of the Ampurdán, the Pyrenees, the eastern end of the Iberian Peninsula and in the mountains and capes of the northern Balearic Islands.
This situation, together with the low temperatures, will leave a thermal sensation extremely cold in the northeast, where the combination of wind and subzero thermometers will be especially adverse.
Snow at low levels and widespread thermal collapse
One of the most striking phenomena of the day will be the drastic decline from the snow level. Throughout Sunday, precipitation in the form of snow will occur around 500 or 800 meters in most of the territory, and even between 300 and 500 meters in the northeast of the peninsula.
This circumstance will leave accumulated significant in the eastern Cantabrian, the Pyrenees, northern Iberia and in the Balearic mountains.
The precipitation will be especially intense in the Cantabrian area, the upper Ebro, the Pyrenees and the Balearic Islands, where they could also be accompanied by occasional storms.
Temperatures will experience a general decline in most of the country, with locally notable drops in the interior of the eastern third. Only the coasts of the southern peninsula will register slight increases, while on the rest of the coasts the changes will be insignificant.
The minimums, for their part, will go down in the Balearic Islands, Galicia and the Betic mountain ranges, with frosts that will affect the mountains of the northern half, the southeast of the peninsula and the northern plateau.
In the Canary Islands, the trade will blow with intervals strongwhile the skies will remain cloudy in the north of the islands and clear in the south. The authorities recommend exercise extreme caution when traveling by road due to the risk of snowfall at low altitudes and the presence of hurricane-force winds in the most exposed areas.