This Wednesday will be the coolest and rainiest day of the week. The arrival of a trough with a cooler Atlantic mass will leave a notable drop in temperatures in most of the country. In addition, it is expected showers and storms, which could be very strong, especially on the Mediterranean coast and in the Balearic Islands, where it is not ruled out hail. Upon arrival in the Mediterranean, the trough will isolate itself, forming a isolated depression at high levels (DANA). The situation will be spatially adverse in Andalusia, Balearic Islands, Catalonia, Murcia and the Valencian Communitywhere the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) has activated theorange visor.
Communities on alert
This Wednesday, a dozen autonomous communities are on alert due to rain, storms and strong waves, according to the AEMET forecast. “orange” level warnings (significant risk) in the communities of Andalusia, Balearic Islands, Catalonia, Murcia and the Valencian Communitywhere the rains will be very abundant and will accumulate up to 40 or 50 liters per square meter in one hour and in many places up to 100 liters per square meter in two or three hours. In the same communities the warning is also orange in anticipation of heavy storms. The weather service has warned that storms will continue accompanied by hail -with balls that can exceed the 2 centimeters thick- and very strong gusts of windup to 100 kilometers per hour.
He rest of the notices are yellow level (risk) for storms and heavy rains in many areas of the five communities and in those of Aragon, Castile-La Mancha, Navarre and the Basque Country, in view of the forecast that very intense rains will also be recorded, which in many places could reach 40 liters per square meterand by storms, which will also be accompanied by hail and very strong gusts of wind. Likewise, the state agency has activated the yellow warning for waves of two to three metres in Girona (Ampurdán) or waves of about two metres on most of the coasts of the Balearic Islands. Likewise, waves of around two to three metres will be recorded warnings for wind and coastal phenomena in Gran Canaria, La Palma and Tenerife (Canary Islands).
In general, Meteorology predicts that the cold trough will finish crossing the Peninsula and evolve into a DANA in the Mediterranean area, which will bring instability to the eastern third of the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, with showers and strong storms, occasionally with hail. Although these conditions They could spread to other areas of the center and southeast, they are expected to be less intense and less likelyIn the north of Galicia and the Cantabrian area, the skies will be mostly cloudy with scattered showers, which will be more abundant in Cantabria and Navarra. The sun will shine in the rest of the peninsula, with clouds evolving in both Castillas and the eastern third. The Canary Islands will have cloudy intervals in the north and clear weather in the rest of the archipelago.
Where will it be cooler?
As for temperatures, a general drop is expected, especially in the Iberian Peninsula and the Pyrenees, although maximum temperatures will increase in the far west, exceeding 36ºC in some depressions in the southern third. Córdoba and Seville will record the highest temperatures, reaching 37ºC, followed by Badajoz with 36ºC, and Ciudad Real, Granada and Málaga with 35ºC. It will ease in Oviedo and Vitoria (21), Lugo and Santander (22), and A Coruña and San Sebastián (23).
The weather for the next few days
Facing the Thursdaythe AEMET predicts that instability will decrease in areas of the peninsular third, although it will persist in the Balearic Islands, where the DANA will end up positioned after its isolation process. Thus, it is expected that a large part of the archipelago will once again suffer strong showers and storms, reaching accumulations that may be very significant locally. From, Fridayeven with uncertainty, the most likely scenario is that the DANA begins to move towards the central Mediterranean, thereby gradually reducing instability. Even so, showers of some intensity are not ruled out that day in parts of the Balearic Islands and the north-east of the peninsula.