The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) has issued a special warning for successive Atlantic storms that will affect the peninsula and the Balearic Islands this week and will give way to an autumn atmosphere, after recording temperatures above 30 degrees during the first two weeks. October.
This Tuesday the storm Babet arrives, named by the British meteorological service MettOffic, “with precipitation and wind being the most significant phenomena.” The rains will be more persistent in the west and south of Galicia, as well as in the west of the central system.
Babet will also leave very strong gusts of wind on the Atlantic slope of the peninsula and the rest of the northern plateau, more likely and intense in mountain areas of the northwest quadrant and western Pyrenees, where speeds of 80-100 km/h may be exceeded, the agency points out. in an informative note.
The orange warning has been decreed for gusts of up to 100 km/h in the Cordillera, Picos de Europa-Asturias and the Cantabrian region of Liébana. The alert has also been activated for coastal phenomena in Pontevedra and A Coruña, due to winds from the south or southeast between 62 and 74 km/h (force 8).
The rainfall from this first storm of the week will be more abundant in the extreme west of the peninsula, especially in the west and south of Galicia, Sanabria and the west of the Central system, with the probability of becoming persistent and locally strong, as well as in the extreme southwestern peninsula, where they could also reach strong points and go stormy, adds the Aemet.
The autumn weather will be reflected in the drop in temperatures. The minimums will decrease in the Canary Islands and areas of the Levant peninsula, increasing in the rest, notably in the eastern Cantabrian Sea. The maximums will drop in the Canary Islands, the southwest of the peninsula and the Valencian Community.
The weather will be marked by instability with the entry of successive storms, the agency anticipates. On Wednesday morning, precipitation associated with the cold front is likely to continue across the board, being less likely in the southeast of the peninsula and the Mediterranean area.
In the afternoon, the Aemet continues, a new very active cold front will probably penetrate the northwest of the peninsula, which will travel through the country from west to east on Thursday, leaving intense and persistent rainfall over much of the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, accompanied by winds. intense from the southwest.
