He first winter blow will arrive in Spain during the December Long Weekend. A arctic air mass It will penetrate the Peninsula between Saturday and Sunday and will lead to a notable drop in temperatures and snowfall in large areas that could leave very significant accumulations. The episode will be extended to next week.
For now, this Thursday Stable weather will prevail in most of the country, if anything with some rain in Galicia, the Cantabrian Sea and the Pyrenees, which will be snow in this mountain range above about 1,500 meters. In the interior, morning fogs will form that will reduce visibility and the wind will blow strongly in the northeast of the peninsula and in the Balearic Islands. Temperatures will rise in large areas and the rise will be notable in points of the Cantabrian Sea and the Iberian System, while they will fall in the southwest quadrant, coastlines of the extreme southeast and depressions of the northeast. It will be warmer in Santa Cruz de Tenerife (25 degrees), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (24) and Alicante, Málaga and Murcia (22), and colder in Lleida (10) and Burgos and Segovia (12).
Friday will again be an anti-cyclonic day, with rain only in Galicia and in the extreme north. Even so, extensive banks of fog and low clouds will form in the interior, which will reduce visibility, so the AEMET recommends using caution behind the wheel if you are going to travel. In general, temperatures will rise and it will be a warm day for the season. In cities in the northern third such as Santander, Loroño, Girona, Coruña or Bilbao, 18 to 20ºC will be recorded, while in Mediterranean cities such as Tarragona, Valencia, Alicante or Murcia it will be around 23 to 25ºC.
radical change of time
The weather outlook will change on Saturday. The Arctic mass will begin to reach the extreme north of the peninsula from noon. Temperatures will drop in the north of the peninsula and will do so noticeably in mountainous areas, although in the southeast they could still be around 25ºC. It will snow in the Pyrenees and the Cantabrian mountain range above 900-1000 meters.
This polar air mass will extend on Sunday through the rest of the Peninsula, which will cause a generalized thermal dropdo. This will be more pronounced in the maximum temperatures, which will be below 10ºC in large areas of the Peninsula. Cities like Burgos, León or Pamplona will barely reach 5ºC.
That day they are expected Precipitation in large areas of the northern half that will be abundant in the Cantabrian Sea and the Pyrenees. In mountain areas and in lower areas, especially in the east of Castilla y León, north of Castilla-La Mancha and south of Aragón, these precipitations will be snow. In general terms, The snow level will be around 500 meters in the northeast and 800 meters in the rest of the northern half.
Likewise, during the last hours of Saturday, but especially throughout Sunday, The wind will also pick up. Meteorology warns of very strong gusts in the northeast of the peninsula, Balearic Islands and also in mountain areas of the northern half of the peninsula, with possible blizzards in the Pyrenees and the Cantabrian mountain range. At the same time, there could be very strong gusts in other areas of the north and southeast of the peninsula and there will be coastal storms in the Cantabrian Sea and the Balearic Sea.
Temperatures will continue to drop on Monday and night frosts will become more widespread in large areas of the interior of the peninsula.. Many cities in the interior of the northern half will remain below 5ºC, while in the central zone and in the interior of the southern half they will remain below 10ºC. Regarding the snow episode, the most likely scenario is that it will last at least until Wednesday, but it is possible that it will last for more days, warns the AEMET. The heaviest snowfalls would be again in the Pyrenees, the Cantabrian mountain range and the northern Iberian mountain range.
Freezing temperatures
For its part, the weather portal eltiempo.es warns that cities like Burgos will experience a marked drop in temperatures at the beginning of next week. YesThe maximum temperatures on both Monday and Tuesday are expected to reach just 2ºC, a record similar to that expected in Moscow, Russia. The minimum temperatures in both cities will be around 0ºC or even -1ºC. In addition, communities such as Castilla y León, La Rioja, Navarra, Aragón, Madrid and Castilla-La Mancha will face especially cold days, with the possibility of continuous snowfall during the first days of the week.
Where is it going to snow the most?
Snow levels will continue to be low, around 600 meters, while in the Pyrenees area it could snow at any altitude on Monday. Although the forecast could vary, untilToday, almost a meter of new snow is expected to accumulate in some areas. According to eltiempo.es, Pyrenees It will be the area with the most snow, accumulating up to 1 meter until Monday, especially in the Pyrenees of Huesca and Lleida. The level will drop to 500 meters on Sunday and snow is expected until Wednesday. In the Cantabrian Mountains Significant snowfalls are also expected with accumulations close to the meter in areas such as Picos de Europa. The level will drop to 500-600 meters on Sunday and rise slightly on Monday, continuing until Wednesday.