The persistence of a low pressure system in the Mediterranean area, combined with the entry of a humid flow from the northwest driven by high Atlantic pressures, is causing the winter episode to become lengthen more than expected in certain parts of the country.
While the western half begins to notice a slight truce With the rise in maximum temperatures, the northeast and the archipelagos remain under the influence of hostile weather.
The skies remain very cloudy or overcast in Galiciathe slope cantabrianthe north of the Pyrenees and Balearic Islandsas well as in mountainous environments such as Ibérica and the Central system.
In these areas, rainfall is a constant, especially in the interior of the cantabrian cornicewhere showers are being recorded with greater persistence.
In it rest of the peninsulaalthough the general trend is of receding cloudiness towards slightly cloudy or clear skies, some weak and scattered rains can still occur during the first half of the day.
The eastern Pyrenees, epicenter of hurricane gusts and snowfall
One of the most significant phenomena of this day It’s the wind. The north and northwest are expected to blow strongly on the coasts, being moderate in general, but reaching very strong intensity in points such as the southern coast of Tarragona.
It is in the northeastern end peninsular and in the northern Balearic Islands where the gusts will be more violent, especially in the Empordà and high areas of the eastern peninsula.
“The combination of the northwest flow with the orography is generating very strong gusts, and even locally hurricanes, at high levels of the eastern Pyrenees”warn sources from the State Meteorological Agency.
This unstable situation also leaves significant snow accumulations in the mountain range. pyrenean. The elevation is between 800 and 1,000 meters in the north of the Pyrenees, where the thicknesses will be more notable, while in the rest of the mountainous areas of the northern half the elevation rises to 1,000 or 1,400 meters, with weaker accumulations.
Regarding temperatures, the outlook is unequal. While in the middle western peninsular and at the extreme northeast thermometers at their maximum values experience a ascentin it rest of the peninsula and in Balearics are imposed descentsmore pronounced in areas of the Pyrenees and Iberia.
The minimums, for their part, they rise slightly in Galiciathe Cantabrian area and the southwest, but they decrease in the rest, with special intensity in the plateau. This cold environment will leave weak frosts in mountain areas.
In Canary Islandsthe archipelago lives a separate reality, with cloudy skies in the north of the mountainous islands and probable weak rains, under a moderate trade wind regime that will worsen with strong intervals in the most exposed areas, and with a slight general temperature drop.