Up to six communities continue this Thursday on alert for heavy rains and storms, with special incidence in areas of the Pyrenees and the banks of the Ebro, where 30 liters are expected in one hour. The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) has activated warnings in Castilla y León, Catalonia, La Rioja, the Basque Country, Navarra and Aragon.
Aragon has an orange alert (significant risk) throughout the community. In the case of the Foral Community of Navarra, the orange level has been activated in areas of the Ribera del Ebro due to rains that will accumulate 30 liters in one hour with a probability of large hail and very strong gusts of wind.
As of Friday, a good part of the country will be dominated by stable weather without precipitation. The maximum temperatures will tend to increase in the Balearic Islands and the northeastern half of the peninsula, being able to reach notable in the eastern Cantabrian Sea, and will descend in the Canary Islands and the rest of the Peninsula. More than 34 degrees are expected in large areas of the southern half of the peninsula.
Over the weekend, the weather will be more stable with some light rains in Galicia and parts of the Cantabrian Sea and with rising temperatures: on Saturday they will do so especially in the east and south and on Sunday the rise will be “widespread and could continue”. .
And the second heat wave will arrive to close the week. In this warm episode, the maximum temperatures could reach up to 44 degrees, especially in the east, center and south of the peninsula, and also very hot nights, where thermometers will oscillate between 21 and 24 degrees, according to the forecast of the Aemet.
As of this Sunday and during the first days of next week “it cannot be ruled out that the thresholds of intensity, extension and duration necessary to be able to speak of the second heat wave of this summer will be exceeded”, the spokesman has advanced. of the agency, Rubén del Campo.
The spokesman believes that on Monday “the heat could even pick up again, with especially high temperatures in the east, center and south of the peninsula and also in the Balearic Islands”, where temperatures will exceed 35 degrees in a general way, 38 degrees in central areas and southern half and punctually in Mallorca, and 40 degrees in the Guadalquivir.
These very high temperatures could continue during the following days, without ruling out that the intensity, extension and duration thresholds necessary to be able to speak of the second heat wave of this summer may be exceeded, it has concluded. However, he speaks of some “uncertainty” until those dates get closer.
