The State Meteorological Agency has refined the forecast for this Saturday, May 23, and the diagnosis is of a Spain divided in two. The DANA that has been roaming the northwestern end of the Peninsula since Friday, will reactivate during the afternoon and trigger instability in the northwest quadrant. The storms, which during the first hours of the day will affect Galicia and Asturias in isolation, will gain organization and extend to Cantabria and Castilla y León as the day progresses, with “probability of being locally strong and accompanied by hail and very strong gusts of wind.”
Meanwhile, high pressures will keep the domain over the rest of the country, with slightly cloudy skies or with intervals of high clouds, although DANA itself will favor the formation of evolutionary cloudiness in other mountainous environments in the center and north, where some isolated showers are not ruled out. In the Balearic Islands and the Catalan coasts, intervals of low clouds with possible coastal mists or fogs are expected, and haze will make an appearance in the Canary Islands and the extreme west of the peninsula.
Suffocating heat in the southwest despite the thermal relief of the Cantabrian Sea
He contrast thermal will be one of the most striking features of the day. While the northwest third of the peninsula and points of Alborán will notice a decrease in maximum temperatures (locally notable on the Cantabrian coast), in the rest of the country the thermometers barely They will move.
The AEMET warns that temperatures “will remain at high values for the season in most of the country, exceeding the 34-36 degrees in large areas of the southwest quadrant and in the depressions of the northeast of the peninsula”, without ruling out that these records will be reached in the eastern Canary Islands. The minimums, in general, will present few changes, although the rises will predominate, more pronounced in the Canary Islands.
Very strong gusts in the Strait and east wind
The wind chapter will require caution at several points. will predominate the eastern component in the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, with moderate intensity on the coasts of Galicia and the south of the peninsula, as well as in the interior of Málaga and Cádiz.
Strong intervals and very strong gusts of wind are expected around the Strait. In the rest of the country, the wind will be weak in general, although it will pick up in the afternoon in the eastern regions. He Cantabrian There will be a moderate wind from the west that will move slowly to the north, and in the Canary Islands a wind will blow from the north with strong intervals. The combination of organized storms in the northwest, intense heat in the southwest and strong wind in the Strait creates a Saturday of extremes that will force you to consult the forecast before any outdoor activity.