The third heat wave of the summer will hit Spain starting tomorrow and will shoot the thermometers above 40 degrees in a large part of the country and will bring “tropical” and suffocating nights with lows that in many places will not drop below 25 degrees.
The State Meteorological Agency has warned that this mass of warm air from Africa will affect a large part of the countries bordering the Mediterranean and that in Spain the temperatures will be very high, above the usual values ??of the heatwave .
A situation that will extend the meteorological warnings to twelve autonomous communities and that will dye these alerts “red” (extreme risk) during the next few days in some places; tomorrow they will reach that maximum alert level in Andalusia and on Tuesday it will be activated in the communities of Catalonia, Aragon and the Balearic Islands, with temperatures in all cases that will widely exceed 40 degrees.
The Aemet, which has issued a special notice on the occasion of this new heat wave, has explained that starting tomorrow a mass of very warm, dry and stable air will enter, with characteristics similar to the heat episode that occurred at the beginning This week.
This mass of warm air coming from Africa, together with the high insolation typical of this time of year, will be what causes the rise in temperatures in a large part of the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, except in the northwestern third, and that values ??are reached very high in areas of the center and the interior south of the peninsula, in depressions in the northeast and in the interior of Mallorca during the first half of the week.
In the Community, the red alert notice extends to almost the entire province of Alicante, with the exception of some coastal towns; and within the province of Valencia. The night, likewise, will be especially hot, with a tropical night forecast in almost the entire territory with the exception of some islands in Castelló and in the center of Alicante province.
The highest temperatures will be reached tomorrow in the center and interior south of the peninsula and in the Guadiana valley, where 40 degrees will be exceeded in a general way, as well as in the Guadalquivir valley, where it will exceed 42, but Aemet has advanced which locally can reach up to 44 degrees.
The nights will be especially suffocating, with minimum temperatures above 24 degrees, in Almería (26 degrees), Alicante (24), Barcelona (24), Cádiz (24), Jaén (24), Málaga (25) or Melilla ( 24).
On Tuesday there will be a rise in temperatures in the eastern third of the peninsula, the upper Ebro and the Balearic Islands, while they remain or fall slightly on the Atlantic slope, according to data from the State Meteorological Agency, which has indicated that temperatures will continue being very high in the center and south of the peninsula, exceeding 40 degrees in large areas, including 42 locally in the Guadalquivir valley.
A more pronounced drop in temperatures from the northwest is expected for Wednesday, although they will continue to be high in large areas of the interior south and southeast of the peninsula, the Balearic Islands and the center of the peninsula.
And as of Thursday the 20th, the drop in temperatures will most likely extend to the entire national territory, which will put an end to this new heat wave, although it is likely that temperatures will still be very high in the valley that day of the Guadalquivir.
