After an unusually cool start to May in many areas of Spain, a powerful anticyclonic ridge will cause a radical and uninterrupted thermal rise. ANDsummer records are expected this weekend, while closely monitoring the possible formation of a DANA.
Stability will progressively gain ground throughout this week thanks to the expansion of the dorsal, which will favor the air mass over the Peninsula begins to warm.
However, this Monday there will still be a dual scenario in some regions. The State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) has activated the yellow notice in Catalonia, especially in Girona, given the risk of locally strong showers and thunderstorms and persistent in the northeast in the afternoon and on the coast during the first half of the day.
In addition, The extreme north of the peninsula will receive a weak front at the last minute that will leave low cloudiness and scattered drizzles in Galicia. In the rest of the country, skies will remain clear or with high evolving clouds.
Maximum temperatures are already beginning to rise this Monday, reaching 29 ºC in Murcia and touching 27 or 28 ºC in provinces such as Seville, Córdoba and Badajoz.
Unstoppable rise of thermometers
Starting on Tuesday, the warm air mass combined with the intense daytime sunshine will reinforce the heat, reports eltiempo.es. On that same day,e will generally exceed 30 ºC in areas of Extremadura, Andalusia, Murcia and Aragón.
In the rest of the Peninsula, lMaximum temperatures will move comfortably between 22 ºC and 24 ºCeven ranking above in many points.
Minimum temperatures will also experience a general rise, consolidating above 10 ºC in almost the entire territory starting Tuesday, leaving behind the cold nights and limiting frost to weak and residual levels on the peaks of the Pyrenees.
Between Wednesday and Thursday, the thermal rebound will intensify significantlye, and the heat will move strongly towards the interior and the North Plateaue, making cities like Madrid, Cuenca or Valladolid reach or are around the 30 ºC barrier.
A weekend in mid-July
The real peak of this episode will come in the face of weekendconfiguring a full-fledged summer preview in almost the entire country due to the reinforcement of the dorsal. The eltiempo.es forecast points to very high values for these dates, estimating for the Friday a maximum close to 35 ºC in Madrid.
Facing the Saturdaythe mercury will skyrocket in the Guadalquivir valley, where Cities like Seville could register 40 ºC or even more in the shade.
The north of Spain will not be left out of this meteorological change either, and In Bilbao, for example, thermometers could also reach 35 ºC during the weekend. For its part, the Mediterranean facade will register an environment not only hot, but also marked by a high humidity indexwhich will considerably increase the sensation of sultry along the entire coast.
The north watches the sky for a possible DANA
Despite the suffocating atmosphere, meteorologists remain very attentive to an epocket of cold air that, between Friday and Saturday, It will approach the north of the peninsula. If this forecast comes true, which according to eltiempo.es still presents some uncertainty, a considerable increase in instability is expected that will leave the most important precipitation accumulations of the week in the Cantabrian communities and the upper Ebro area.
This unstable situation could extend into the interior of the Peninsula throughout Sunday and, especially, during the start of the following week. From the meteorological portal they indicate that these values will be confirmed as the days go by, as the possible formation of a DANA over the north of the peninsula is evaluated.