Today’s day, Wednesday, is expected to be difficult as it is expected to be the hottest day of the year. High temperatures will be a constant in a large part of the Peninsula on Wednesday, with highs that will rise to 44 degrees in provinces such as Ciudad Real and Córdoba, and with up to five communities on red alert due to extreme risk of heat and other six on orange alert.
Both the maximums and the minimums, already high for what is usual at this time of year, will experience a general increase that will even be notable in the maximums of the Cantabrian Sea and the upper Ebro, according to the forecasts of the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet). .
For this Wednesday, temperatures are expected to exceed 40 degrees in the central, southern and eastern parts of the Peninsula.
In the Community of Madrid, the heat is expected to put the capital of the country on red notice with clear skies with the presence of haze and rising temperatures. The same as in Castilla-La Mancha, which is also strongly affected by heat, with variable light winds and haze. Cuenca will be at extreme risk due to high temperatures and Albacete, Ciudad Real, Guadalajara and Toledo will be at significant risk.
In Andalusia, extreme temperatures are also expected, focused on Córdoba, which during the day yesterday was already the scene of the highest maximum temperature recorded. Specifically, the provinces of Córdoba, Granada and Jaén will be on red notice due to high temperatures; in orange notice Malaga and Seville; and in yellow notice Almería, Cádiz and Huelva. In this community, storms will also have a yellow warning for Almería and Granada.
The area of ??the Guadalquivir Valley is where it will be the hottest in the entire Spanish territory, and it will end up spreading throughout the Mediterranean area.
As Aemet itself indicates, these are very high temperatures, infrequent even in the middle of summer. In fact, they are part of the 5% of highest temperatures recorded in the period between 1991 and 2020.
The approach of a DANA to the northwest of the peninsula will cause intervals of medium and high clouds in large pockets of Spanish territory, with an episode of gale in eastern Cantabria and very strong gusts of wind in the east of the northern plateau, the Iberian system and the Basque Country, where dry storms are expected.
The haze will be likely both in the Peninsula and in the Canary Islands, more frequent in the eastern islands at the end of the day; while on the Atlantic coasts of Cádiz and Galicia, as well as in the Strait and Alborán, coastal fog can be seen.
