The episode of adverse weather that began with the arrival of storm Regina, the seventeenth of the season, will not give truce in the next few days.
Although the system that baptized the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and the Atmosphere (IPMA) tends to move towards the east, the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) has activated warnings regarding the formation of a new DANA that will be located near the Peninsula.
This pocket of cold air at altitude will act as an engine of instabilitygenerating a flow of humid winds that will leave widespread showers in much of the territory.
The AEMET has detailed that Saturday is presented as the most complicated dayespecially in the Mediterranean area. The agency has explained that the uncertainty about the exact trajectory of DANA is high, but the models suggest that the most significant accumulations will be recorded on the coast. Mediterranean and in the southern Andalusia.
Showers could be locally heavy and accompanied by stormand even hail in some points, which would complicate road traffic. The General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) has already asked drivers to be careful in Asturias, where up to 80 liters per square meter could accumulate in mountain areas.
The north of the peninsula will register copious snowfalls and a marked temperature drop
The State Meteorological Agency predicts that instability will persist throughout the day on Saturday under the influence direct of DANA, which will result in a predominance of cloudy or overcast skies in practice whole of the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands.
Precipitation will be widespread, although the largest accumulations will be concentrated in the Cantabrianthe northeast of the peninsula and the Balearic archipelago. Meteorologists expect that the most intense showers with significant accumulations will affect Cantabria, Tarragona, Castellón and the Pitiusa islandss, where it is not ruled out that they may be accompanied by occasional storms. In Aragon and other areas of the northeast could also register some localized heavy showers.
As for snowfall, the level will be between 1,300 and 1,600 meters in most of the mountain systems, although during the early morning it will descend to 1,100 or 1,300 meters in the southeast of the peninsula. The thicknesses will be significant in the southeastern mountain ranges, southern Iberia, the west of the Central System and the Cantabrian mountain range, where several centimeters of new snow will accumulate.
In addition, morning fog banks will form in mountain environments in the northern half and in the mountain ranges of the Mediterranean pre-coastal, which could reduce visibility in mountain passes and communication routes.
Maximum temperatures will experience a increase in the southwestthe Cantabrian area, the upper Ebro and the northeast of Catalonia, while they will decrease in the center and the eastern third of the peninsula. The minimalfor their part, will decrease in the northeast half and will remain without significant changes in the rest of the territory.
They are expected frost weak on the summits of the main mountain systems, especially during the early morning hours.
The wind will blow loose inside, with predominance of component south in most of the Peninsula and Balearic Islands. In the northwest quadrant the component will predominate northwhile in the south of the peninsula it will blow from the southwest. The intervals will be moderate in the Balearic Islands, the northeastern third and the coasts, reaching intensity strong on the Galician Atlantic coast and in the Alboran Sea.
In the Canary Islands, the trade It will blow with strong intervals and possible very strong gusts in exposed areas, while the skies will remain cloudy in the north of the mountainous islands, with probable weak rainfall.