Spain is facing the second heat wave of this summer, an event that will leave “significantly high” temperatures in a good part of the peninsula and the Balearic Islands with the exception of the northwest and eastern coast, and that will be up to 44 degrees in the Guadalquivir valley next to torrid nights in which it will not drop below 25 degrees.
According to the forecast of the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet), for this Monday temperatures are expected to rise generally, which could reach notable levels in valleys of the Atlantic slope. There will be one caveat: the minimums that will drop in areas of the northern third of the peninsula.
Except in the extreme north and in some areas of the Levante, temperatures will exceed 35 degrees in a large part of the Peninsula and in the Balearic Islands, reaching 40 degrees in the center and interior parts of the southern half, as well as occasionally in the Ebro. Guadalquivir valley, temperatures will shoot up to 45 degrees.
It will not be easy to reconcile the ground this Monday in many areas of Spain. Torrid nights are expected, in which the temperature will not drop below 25 degrees in areas of the Guadalquivir valley and on the coasts of Granada and Almería, and in parts of Mallorca.
The agency will activate the alerts in more than thirty provinces of twelve autonomous communities, highlighting the extreme risk (red) in Córdoba and Jaén. In the Cordoba countryside, it can reach up to 44 degrees from 1:00 p.m.
In addition to the red warning in these Andalusian provinces, high temperatures will put Cádiz, Granada, Málaga, Seville, the Balearic Islands, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Guadalajara, Toledo, Badajoz, Cáceres, Madrid and Albacete at significant risk (orange), which will also be Yellow alert for storms.
Huesca, Teruel, Zaragoza, Ávila, Burgos, Palencia, Salamanca, Segovia, Soria, Valladolid, Zamora, Barcelona, ??Girona, Lleida, Murcia, Navarra, La Rioja, Alicante and Valencia will also be affected by the heat wave with a yellow warning .
The Aemet recalls that with the red alert the risk is extreme with unusual meteorological phenomena of exceptional intensity and with a very high level of risk for the population, while with the orange level there is significant risk in unusual meteorological phenomena and for usual activities .
