This Friday, the spring atmosphere will prevail in several areas of the Cantabrian area, with temperatures close to 20 degrees, a phenomenon more typical of May or June than the first half of January. Cities such as Oviedo, Bilbao, San Sebastián, A Coruña and Santander will reach remarkably mild temperatures for the season, according to the prediction of the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET). However, starting on Sunday a mass of cold air will arrive, with a marked temperature drop. There will be widespread frost, even near the coast. On the other hand, a new front will approach today from the northwest of the Peninsula and will leave rains in parts of Galicia and Catalonia.
Areas on alert for rain
The Galician provinces of A Coruña and Pontevedra will activate yellow warnings at noon for heavy rains that could leave up to 40 liters per square meter in twelve hours. In A Coruña, the areas that will be under warning due to heavy rainfall will be the northwest, southwest and west, while the alert in Pontevedra will affect the interior of the province. It is also under a yellow warning, although it will stop at 10 a.m. the province of Guadalajara (Castilla-La Mancha) in the area of the mountains and Alcarria, due to dense fog with visibility of about 200 meters.
This Friday, spring temperatures
The thermal increase will be noticeable this Friday especially in the Cantabrian Sea, the Pyrenees and the south of the Iberian Systemwhile in the rest of the country temperatures will hardly vary, except in mountain environments, where a slight increase is expected, and in the valleys of the main rivers, where they could decrease slightly. The warmest cities will be Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Santa Cruz de Tenerife, with maximums of 24 degrees, followed by Alicante, Málaga, Murcia and Valencia, which will reach 22 degreesreports Servimedia. In contrast, Cuenca, León and Soria will register the coldest temperatures, with maximums of 11 degrees, and Burgos will reach 12.
the cold returns
On Sunday, a mass of cold air will arrive from Europe that will plummet thermometers in much of Spain at least until Tuesday. The maximum temperatures will not exceed 10 degrees for several days in large areas of the country, and night frosts are expected in most of the territory. Only areas close to the coast and areas of western Andalusia and Extremadura will escape the sub-zero temperatures.
During the day, both Monday and Tuesday, less than 10 degrees are expected in large areas of the northern half and the interior of the southeast. The coldest capitals during the day could be Burgos, Pamplona and Vitoria this Sunday (7 degrees); Ávila, Lleida and Pamplona on Monday (5), and Lleida on Tuesday (5) and Lleida on Wednesday (6). At night, the most severe frosts would occur on Sunday in Teruel (-5), on Monday in Teruel (-7), on Tuesday in Soria (-7) and on Wednesday in Teruel (-6).
In addition, on Sunday it will begin to snow in the northeast of the peninsula below 700 to 800 meters. On Monday, the snow level will remain in that area and will reach 1,000 meters in the southeast of the peninsula. The situation will persist on Tuesday and Wednesday, with snowfall in the mountains of the north and east of the peninsula. Although less likely, it is not ruled out that snowfall could occur in lower areas of the southeast and the Southern Plateau during these days.