After enduring anomalous heat and little rainfall at the beginning of the week, the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) predicts starting this Friday a progressive transition towards an anticyclonic situation, which will leave dry and sunny weather throughout the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands.
According to the agency, maximum temperatures will increase this Friday in much of the country, except on the Cantabrian and Mediterranean coasts and the western Canary Islands. The rise will be more pronounced in the interior of the peninsula. The minimums will decrease in the northern and eastern thirds, in the archipelagos and will increase in the southwest.
Today it will be close to 20 degrees in many provincial capitals, such as Murcia, Melilla, Cádiz, Ceuta, Almería, Alicante, Girona, Huelva, Lleida, Seville or Tarragona. Weak frosts are expected in the mountains, moderate in the Pyrenees, without ruling them out also in the moors of the North plateau, east of the South plateau, east of the Betic systems and depressions in the northeast.
“We are generally speaking of normal temperatures for the time of year, with records in the central hours of the day between 10 and 15 degrees in much of the interior, somewhat higher in the Mediterranean area and in the southern third, where temperatures can be reached 18 to 20 degrees,” summarizes Aemet spokesperson Rubén Del Campo.
Despite the dry and stable weather for this Friday, the Aemet believes that precipitation is likely in the eastern Cantabrian Sea, northern Iberia and the peaks of the Pyrenees, without ruling out the western Cantabrian Sea and tending to subside and open clearings. Cloudy intervals will be recorded in Galicia, the northern plateau, around the Iberian Peninsula, the Balearic Islands and, in the morning, in the northeast and the Canary Islands.
The day will also be marked by strong gusts of wind, which will blow from the north and west in the eastern third and the Balearic Islands, east in the Cantabrian Sea, Strait and Alboran, and north and east in the rest of the country. They will be especially strong in Ampurdán, northern Balearic Islands and Strait, under Ebro, Strait and Pyrenees. In these areas, the yellow or orange warning has been activated for up to gusts of 70 km/h and waves of between four and five meters.
This weekend’s weather will once again be marked by atmospheric stability. During Saturday and Sunday, temperatures will reach normal values ??for the time of year, except for the Northern Plateau.
The nighttime ones will decrease in low areas, the plateaus and central moors, while they will rise in mountain areas, a phenomenon known as “thermal inversion,” the agency points out. The maximum temperatures will exceed 15 degrees in many of the provincial capitals. And they will once again touch 20 degrees in the southeast of the peninsula and some parts of the Mediterranean.
