Experts predict when the sweltering heat will hit

The week has started with a lot of instability due to a deep trough that is leaving heavy rains and storms in several areas of the country. Starting on Thursday, there will be a more stable environment and rainfall will be limited to the northern end of the Peninsula.

Wednesday, June 12, will once again be a day with cloudy skies and generally weak rains in the extreme north of the Peninsula. The instability that will be concentrated again in the east of the Peninsula and in the Balearic Islands. By area, the most intense stormy showers will occur in the north of Catalonia and the interior of the southeast of the Peninsula and may also be accompanied by hail.

In the west of the Peninsula, stable weather will predominate with temperatures without major changes. In this way, the cool environment for the season will continue, and temperatures will only exceed 30ºC in points of the Guadiana and Guadalquivir valleys. In areas of the east and north of the Peninsula, the maximums will once again be between 5 and 10ºC below the normal average for these datess. Meanwhile, in Vitoria, Teruel, Soria, Santander, Pamplona, ​​Oviedo, Lugo, León, San Sebastián and Burgos they will not exceed 17-18 degrees.

Starting Thursday, there will be a trend toward more stable weather and The rains will be limited to the extreme north, where they will fall due to the passage of fronts. However, it cannot be ruled out that showers will occur on both Thursday and Friday, generally weak and dispersed, in parts of the center and east of the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, especially in mountain areas.

Temperatures will rise across the country on Thursday and on Friday they could exceed 30ºC in large areas of the northern plateau, as well as in the northeast, center and south of the Peninsula. In the Ebro, Guadiana and Guadalquivir valleys, it could reach 32 to 34ºC.

For its part, Meteored indicates that Thursday will be a transitory day, with some residual and isolated showers in the east and the Balearic Islands and that during the last hours a frontal system that will leave rain and some storms in Galicia and Asturias. Between Friday and Saturday, the front will advance and leave rain on the northern plateau, Alto Ebro, Cantabrian slope and the Pyrenees. Thus, thanks to the advance of the trough at altitude, storms will form in the interior southeast that will move towards the Balearic Islands and Catalonia.

Refering to next weekMeteored experts advance that we will continue with widespread cold anomalies, both on the Peninsula and in both archipelagos. In most of the country, Temperatures will be several degrees below average.

The last week of June, temperatures will begin to normalize. It will be intensely hot in the west of the peninsula, but still with cold anomalies in the Balearic Islands and the eastern Canary Islands. However, according to Meteored, we will have to wait, predictably, until the first week of July, for the intense heat to become widespread in the Peninsula.