The last week of February will be marked by the Meteorological instabilitywith the passage of a carousel fronts that will leave rains, showers, strong wind gusts and a decrease in temperatures. This Tuesday, waves of up to 5 meters and wind gusts of 80 kilometers per hour put in YELLOW NOTICE 6 communities: Asturias, Cantabria, Cataluña, Galicia, Basque Country and the Valencian Community.
According to the State Meteorology Agency (AEMET), on the Cantabrian Facade, Asturias, Cantabria and the Basque Country are at risk For winds of the west between 50 and 61 km/h (force 7), with possible gusts of up to 74 km/h (force 8), and a combined sea of the northwest with Waves between 4 and 5 meters. The entire Galician coast also continues in yellow warning Due to winds from the southwest between 50 and 61 km/hy wave of up to 5 meters from the west or northwest.
In the Mediterranean, Catalonia has yellow level in Tarragona due to wind gusts up to 80 km/h. In Gironain addition to the risk due to coastal phenomena with 3 meters waves, it is warned about Fog banks that will reduce visibility to 200 meters. For its part, in the Valencian Community, only the Castellón province It is in yellow warning due to wind gusts up to 80 km/h.
Persistent rains and storms in these areas
The general forecast of the AEMET indicates that the Step of a cold front on the peninsula and the Balearic Islands will leave clouds in its path and rains, in general weak, In most of the Peninsula that could reach the Balearic archipelago at the end of the day and will be more intense in the peninsular north. The most abundant rainfall will reach mountainous environments of the northern half, the Cantabrian and eastern Catalonia, where they will be persistent and with possible storms. Instead, they are unlikely to reach the peninsular southeast end.
Also, this Tuesday It could snow in the Cantabrian mountain range, the north of the Iberian system and Pyrenees, Without discarding in other mountains of the northern half, with a dimension above 1,500 meters that will collapse up to 900 and 1,200 meters.
Temperature decrease
Temperatures will rise in Mediterranean coastlines and will fall in most of the rest of the country, with locally notable decreases in the Cantabrian and mountainous systems of the northern half. It will be colder in Ávila, Burgos and Segovia (10 degrees), and León, Lugo, Palencia and Pamplona (11)and more heat in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Málaga and Murcia (23), and Alicante and Santa Cruz de Tenerife (22).
Forecast for the next few days
The front will move away on Wednesday although Precipitation will persist in the Eastern Cantabrian, Pyrenees and Balearic Islands, with snowfall from about 1,000 meters. The presence of colder air will lead to the appearance of frosts at dawn inside the northern half and in the downtown area. Daytime temperatures will go down in the Mediterranean area and rise in the Cantabrian. In the rest there will be no big changes. The 19 degrees of Granada and Badajoz, 18 degrees in Bilbao, 15 degrees in Toledo and 11 degrees in León stand out.
The forecast for Thursday points to the arrival of A storm that would be caught from higher latitudes to approach the peninsula with rains in Galicia and in the rest of the peninsular western end and a snow level around 1,200 or 1,400 meters. Night temperatures will rise significantly because the skies will be more covered and will blow temperate atlantic winds. These winds can be very strong in the north. Already for Friday, the rains would be restricted to the peninsular north, although they cannot be ruled out in the west and center of the peninsula. Temperatures will rise on Friday and Saturday, but they could go down again on Sunday.