This week an unusual heat wave has crossed our country, leaving temperatures that have broken records in various parts of the Peninsula. The “very hot and dry air mass” coming from North Africa will remain for the next few days, reaching its culminating point today Friday the 28th when the thermal rise moves to the northern half of the peninsula.
As indicated by the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET), Spaniards will continue to suffer the rise in maximums during the weekend, in addition to some “abnormally high minimums throughout the country, especially during the early hours of Thursday to Saturday in Andalusia , where locally there could be tropical nights, without going below 20 degrees”. Thus, a most unstable May bank holiday is presented.
The AEMET foresees an “increase in instability” from Saturday 29, the start date of the popular May bridge. From then on, there will be “intervals of medium and high clouds in the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands”, which may be accompanied by showers in the Pyrenees, the Iberian system, the Cantabrian mountain range, the Central system, mountainous areas of Galicia and the southeastern mountains.
Regarding the drop in temperatures, it will occur mainly on the Atlantic and Cantabrian slopes, as well as in the upper and middle Ebro, while they will increase in Mediterranean areas: “despite the drops, 35 degrees will be reached in the Guadalquivir,” he says. the state agency.
The instability will decrease on Sunday the 30th, when the temperatures will drop clearly and in a general way, although they will continue to be above normal. Regarding Monday, May 1 and a national holiday, the probability of precipitation will decrease, although it could fall in the eastern Cantabrian Sea, the Pyrenees, the northeast and the Balearic Islands.
Finally, on Tuesday 2, a public holiday in the Community of Madrid, there will be little chance of rainfall, while the temperatures “will start a trend towards a progressive recovery, which will begin in the west and will spread to the rest of the Peninsula along of the period”.
Regarding the Canary Islands, this May long weekend will have little intense trade winds. Initially the skies will be slightly cloudy and the temperatures stable, but as of Wednesday the probability of precipitation increases in the north of the islands and a temperature drop is expected.
