The sea storm and the strong winds caused by the storm Caetano They keep eight autonomous communities on alert this Friday, highlighting the Valencian Community and Cataloniawhere the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) has activated orange level warnings (significant risk). He weekend will be marked by stability, although the explosive cyclogenesis of Storm Bert over the british isles will cause the approach of a new quite active front to the west of the peninsula which will leave stormy rains and very intense gusts of wind in several areas of the country.
In the Valencian Community, the notice mainly affects the interior of Alicante and to south of Valenciawhere they are expected wind gusts of up to 90 kilometers per hourespecially during the first hours of the day. For its part, in Cataloniathe orange alert focuses on the Empordà coast, in Gironawhere the gusts could reach 100 kilometers per hour and the waves exceed 4 meters.
In addition to these regions, the communities of Aragon, Balearic Islands, and other areas of Catalonia and the Valencian Community remain under yellow notice for winds that could reach 70-80 kilometers per hour, with occasional peaks of up to 90 kilometers per hour.
He strong sea storm also affects Andalusia, Cantabria, Basque Country, Balearic Islands and Melillawhere yellow warnings are related to wind and waves.
According to the AEMET, during the day they expect showers in the northern half of the peninsula, accompanied by gusts of intense wind throughout the eastern peninsula.
More than 5 centimeters of snow
Precipitation in the form of snow will reach the Pyrenees and the Cantabrian mountain range, with the possibility of also extending to the northern Iberian system. Snow levels will progressively decrease from 1,300-1,700 meters to 600-900 meters in the Pyrenees and 900-1,200 meters in the rest.. In the high areas, above 1,400-1,500 meters, they couldaccumulate more than 5 centimeters of snowespecially during the first hours of the day in the Cantabrian mountain range and the Pyrenees.
Intense cold in these areas
Temperatures will tend to drop in the Balearic Islands, in the north and southeast of the peninsula, being especially notable in the maximums of the eastern Cantabrian Sea and in the minimums. in much of the northeast, where the cold will be most intense at the end of the day. In the rest of the territory, slight thermal increases are expected. Furthermore, they are expected Weak frosts in the mountainous areas of the north, which will be more intense, becoming strong, in the Pyrenees. It will be colder in Burgos and León (10), and Lugo, Pamplona, Segovia, Soria and Vitoria (11).
Explosive cyclogenesis
The panorama will change during the weekendwhich will bring relative atmospheric stability. However, this tranquility will be brief, since Storm Bert, in the process of explosive cyclogenesis over the British Isles, will bring a new cold front closer to the west of the peninsula and the Canary Islands.
For its part, Meteored indicates that the new storm will push a mass of air that is abnormally warm for the time, causing a general rise in temperatures during the weekend. The weather portal advances Daytime values of 20 to 25 ºC in areas of Andalusia, southern Extremadura and the Mediterranean coast, exceeding 20 ºC in many areas of the Peninsula, even on the Cantabrian coast.
How Storm Bert will affect Spain
Already on Sunday afternoon and during the night, a very active front associated with this powerful storm will make its entrance, and that “will be reinforced by an intense river of humidity that will push between this same low pressure system and another secondary center to the west of the peninsula,” Meteored warns.
The front will leave locally heavy rains and, sometimes, accompanied by storms in Galicia, extending to other areas of the west-northwest and the Cantabrian slope. During Monday, these precipitations, although less intense, will reach the Pyrenees, the northern plateau, the rest of the northern third, the Central System, Extremadura, Castilla-La Mancha and the Community of Madrid. In contrast, no rain is expected in large areas of the south or on the Mediterranean coast.
The front step will also be accompanied by very intense winds. According to these experts, it is expected that the gusts could exceed the 150 km/h, and even occasionally reaching 180-200 km/h in some hills, peaks and especially exposed areas of the Cantabrian Mountains, especially between Sunday night and early Monday morning.