On New Year’s Eve, as the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) has warned, Spain is preparing for a weekend marked by atypical weather, with unusually high temperatures in several regions and the imminent arrival of an Atlantic front that It promises to drastically change the meteorological panorama.
Spain’s Mediterranean coasts, including the provinces of Cádiz, Málaga, Granada, Almería, Murcia, Alicante, Valencia and Castellón, will experience temperatures that could reach 20 degrees this Sunday, December 31, an unusual figure for the time. This heat wave will also affect the Balearic Islands, with Ibiza and Mallorca expecting thermometers that will also touch 20 degrees.
However, this warm climate is not new for everyone: in the Canary Islands, it is common for the mercury to reach these figures even in winter. On this occasion, temperatures of up to 24 degrees are expected on the islands of Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria and Tenerife.
However, this sunny panorama will experience a change with the arrival of a new Atlantic front. According to Aemet, this front will bring significant rainfall to many parts of the peninsula, just when the new year begins. It is expected that this meteorological change will begin to be noticed late on Saturday, December 30, with Galicia being the first autonomy to register precipitation.
This meteorological instability will also be felt in the extreme south of the country, with cloudy skies and possible scattered showers in the south of Andalusia and Melilla, especially in the area of ??the Strait of Gibraltar. Meanwhile, in the rest of the Peninsula there will be cloudy intervals and medium and high clouds, with a tendency to clear throughout the day. Weak frosts are expected in the center and northeast of the peninsula, more intense in the Pyrenees and the south of the peninsula.
Finally, on Sunday, December 31, the situation will remain unstable in the northwest regions due to the passage of the Atlantic front. Precipitation is expected in Galicia, the Cantabrian Sea, the northern plateau, the upper Ebro and the Pyrenees. Weak and scattered showers are not ruled out in the rest of the northwestern half of the country.
