The State Meteorological Agency has issued a warning for August 8, 2026 that splits the peninsula in two. While the Cantabrian coast and large areas of the Northern plateau are preparing for an afternoon of showers and storms, In the southern and eastern halves of the country, thermometers they will return to shoot
Temperatures will exceed 35 degrees in a good part of these regions, a value that will fall short in the Guadalquivir, where the maximums can reach 40, and in specific points of the northeast of the peninsula. The Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands will not escape the intense heat.
Storms with large hail and violent gusts
The AEMET forecast points to an early morning and a morning relatively calm, with slightly cloudy skies in most of the territory. Only the extreme northwest, the Alborán area and the lower Ebro will dawn with clouds and the possibility of some scattered rains in western Galicia. The banks of fog morning clouds will appear in Galicia and the Cantabrian Sea, and coastal mists are not ruled out in the Strait and the Galician coast.
From noon onwards, however, the atmosphere will destabilize quickly. The development of evolutionary cloudiness will give way to stormy showers that will extend over large areas of the northern half and that may also touch points in the interior southeast. The agency warns that the downpours can be locally very strong and be accompanied by large hail and equally intense gusts of wind, especially in the northeast quadrant of the peninsula, the Cantabrian area and the Northern plateau.
He windwhich during the first hours will be weak and with a west and south component, will worsen in the afternoon.
The heat does not subside even at night
While these storms unload in the north, the south and the east will experience a new day of suffocating heat. The maximums will rise slightly on the Mediterranean and Cantabrian coasts, and will remain stable in the rest. Seville will reach 39 degrees, Córdoba at 41, and cities like Murcia, Badajoz or Zaragoza will move around 38-39. The light haze expected in the Canary Islands and the west of the peninsula will not alleviate the feeling of sultry.
The night, furthermore, will not serve as a truce. The AEMET insists that tropical nights will be repeated in much of the southern half, the northeast of the peninsula, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands. In some parts of the Mediterranean coast, the Guadalquivir valley and the canary archipelago The thermometers will not even drop below 25 degrees. In the two archipelagos, slightly cloudy skies are expected, with the trade wind blowing at strong intervals and very strong gusts in the Canary Islands and moderate easterly winds in the Strait.