Finally, the cold arrives in Spain. The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) expects this Tuesday the arrival of an isolated depression at high levels (DANA), which will collapse the snow level in much of the country, leaving snowfall in much of the northern half of the peninsula and temperatures ” “below normal in the northern half of the peninsula and the Balearic Islands, with frosts that will be strong in mountain areas.”
After the entry of cold air of first polar and then Arctic origin, starting tomorrow a DANA arrives through the Cantabrian Sea, which will last until next Thursday.
As a consequence, starting on Tuesday, Aemet predicts, an episode of snowfall is expected to begin and last throughout Wednesday and Thursday, with precipitation throughout practically the entire Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, less likely in Galicia.
According to the agency, during Tuesday, this precipitation will occur in the form of snow from an elevation between 500-700 meters in the Central System, the Iberian System and the Cantabrian Mountains, as well as in the southeastern mountain ranges from 1,000 meters upwards. at between 1,600 and 1,800 meters. Specific snowfalls are not ruled out on the Northern Plateau and the east of the Southern Plateau.
For Wednesday, precipitation is expected for most of the peninsula, especially in the northeast quadrant of the peninsula, and snowfall will intensify in the northern half. The snow level will be between 800 and 1,000 meters in the Pyrenees; from 300 to 600 in the rest of the northeast of the peninsula; from 800 to 1,000, dropping to between 400 and 600 in the east of the Northern Plateau, the upper Ebro, the Cantabrian Mountains and the surroundings of the Central and Iberian systems, and from 1,400 to 1,600 in the southeastern mountains.
This episode of snowfall will continue on Thursday. The flakes are expected in large areas of the extreme north and the northeastern third, without ruling out accumulations of five centimeters in mountains of the extreme north, with the snow level between 1,000 and 1,600 meters in Aragon, Catalonia and Castellón, and from 500 to 900 rising to between 1,000 and 1,400 in the rest of the northern half.
For that day, clouds are also expected in the northeastern half of the peninsula and the Balearic Islands, with probable precipitation in the Cantabrian Sea, the northeastern third and that archipelago.
DANA will also bring a drop in thermometers. Daytime temperatures will also be very low, exceeding 5 degrees only in the coastal areas and the Guadalquivir valley on Tuesday, being restricted to coastal areas on Wednesday and Thursday. These are records “below normal in the northern half of the peninsula and the Balearic Islands.”
The exception will once again be in the Canary Islands, where records will be above normal for the time of year.
