The intense heat will be installed in Spain during the next few days, with Very warm air masses that will raise temperatures until touching or exceeding 40 degrees in several regions, coinciding with the beginning of the cannula. Although time will remain stable in much of the country, A thermal decline is expected between Friday and Saturday, accompanied by intense storms in the northat risk of hail and strong wind gusts. From Sunday, the heat will rebound again.
This Wednesday Twelve communities are alert, orange or yellow, due to high temperatures that at points of Andalusia, both Castillas, Extremadura, Galicia, the Community of Madrid and the Canary Islands will rise to 37-42 gradeS, according to the State Meteorology Agency (Aemet).
More than half Spain on alert
Andalusia has activated the orange notice in the provinces of Córdoba, Granada, Jaén and Sevilla for maximum between 40 and 42 degrees and yellow warning in Cádiz and Huelva for values between 38-39 degrees. Also Castilla-La Mancha is at the orange level, except the province of Albaceteby values that will rise to 40 degrees. In Extremadura, both in Cáceres and Badajoz, they will mark between 39 and 40 degrees.
In Castilla y León, Ávila has orange notice with 39 degreeswhile the rest of the provinces remain in yellow, with maxims that will range between 34 and 37 degrees. For its part, to the peninsular northwest, Galicia has activated the orange level in the provinces of Ourense and Lugo by heat up to 39 degrees. The Community of Madrid, on orange alert, will register 39 degrees In the metropolitan area, Henares, El Sur, Las Vegas and the West. In the mountains the level is yellow by values of 35 degrees.
Out of the peninsula, Heat will be suffocating in the Canarian archipelago. In Gran Canaria there is orange notice by maximum of up to 37 degrees in the Tejeda basin and mediación oriented to the south and west. In Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, extreme heat will mainly affect interior areas of the southern half. In addition, Aragon, Catalonia, Navarra, La Rioja and in the Valencian Community have activated the yellow alert for maximums that will register between 34 and 38 degrees.
Temperatures go down and storms arrive
The day of Friday will be accentuated by the entrance of Atlantic air, driven by fresher west winds, favoring a thermal decrease in almost all of Spain, except in the Mediterranean area, where these winds will arrive dry and overheated.
Rubén del Campo, spokesman for the Aemet, has specified that this day, The downturn could be between 6 and 8 degrees with respect to the previous day, Leaving maximum between 32 to 34 degrees, although in the center, east and south of the Peninsula, 36 to 38 degrees and more than 40 degrees inside the Valencian Community, Region of Murcia and Eastern Andalusia will still be exceeded. In addition, on Friday it will dawn with heat in the east and south of the Peninsula that in many areas will not fall from 23-25 degrees. This day, storms, locally strong, in the Eastern Cantabrian and Western Pyrenees, could also be generated.
On Saturday they will continue to lower temperatures in almost the whole country, to scan the Cantabrian and, above all, the Mediterranean coast, where temperatures will even rebound. In most of the territory the maximums will not reach 32-33 degrees, except in Castilla-La Mancha and the Guadalquivir, where, between 33 and 35 degrees, between 33 and 35 degreeswhile in Levante, interior of the Valencian Community, in Murcia and in Eastern Andalusia the heat will be stronger for the west winds that will leave between 38 and 40 degrees. This day, on Saturday, the possibility of storms in the north third, locally strong.
Sunday and Monday will be similar days to Saturday with moderate heat in large part of Spain, less in the Mediterranean and the Balearic Islands, where intense heat will persist, and the possibility of some showers in the northern third. As of Tuesday, it is likely that temperatures rise again in a generalized way giving way to a new warm canicular episode, the spokesman has ended.
Where are the strongest showers
Despite the suffocating heat, weather models point to a Sudden change of time from Friday in the northern peninsular. According to Meteored Samuel Biener expert, an Atlantic troughs will take off the vertical of peninsular Spain, leaving very strong and organized storms for Friday.
In this sense, it indicates that to the offalt of the trough we must add the intense heat, the convergence of winds on the surface and the plus of energy provided by the Mediterranean and Cantabrian seas, with abnormally warm waters for the time of the year. “Therefore, we have all the ingredients for tormese cells to present a high degree of organization, with the probable training of supercells, turbonada lines or convective systems in several areas of the country“Biener explains.
These storms will be locally intense or very intense. According to the European model, The most adverse situation could occur during the second half of this Friday between the Basque Country and Navarra, without being ruled out that they also affect neighboring autonomies. In fact, some scenarios point out that in these areas a convective system or an organized structure could be created, leaving probable adverse phenomena. The most likely would be the large hail or very intense winds associated with stormy cells.