The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) has alerted today, Wednesday, August 23, warnings for high temperatures in practically the entire country, given that fifteen autonomies will suffer the last blow of torpor of the fourth heat wave that is affecting Spain these days .
The heat will be noticeable above all in the interior of the Basque Country, where the records will reach 40-42 degrees. In addition, the Aemet has indicated in its prediction the possibility of a locally strong storm in the Pyrenees and intervals of strong wind in the Strait.
Minimum temperatures will increase in the northwestern third of the peninsula and western Andalusia. The maximums will also rise in the extreme north, an increase that will be “notable” in the Cantabrian Sea, even “extraordinary” in the Basque Country, as indicated by Aemet.
On the other hand, there will be no big changes in temperatures in the rest of the country. However, it is expected to reach 34-36 degrees in almost all of the interior of the peninsula and the Balearic Islands, including 38-40 in a large part of the Atlantic slope, depressions in the northeast and inland Cantabrian.
Again, there will be little cloudiness over much of the country. Therefore, the skies will be slightly cloudy or clear with high clouds, with the exception of low morning clouds on the coasts of Galicia, the western Cantabrian Sea, the Strait, Melilla and the Balearic Islands.
Likewise, there is the possibility of witnessing some morning precipitation in the north of Galicia. In the afternoon there may be more cloudiness in areas of the interior northern third, with possible scattered showers and storms, more likely in the mountains, such as in the Pyrenees, where they can be locally strong. Meanwhile, in the Canary Islands there will be cloudy intervals and abundant medium and high cloudiness, without ruling out a shower or storm in the higher relief.
According to Aemet’s prediction, there may be possible banks of morning fog on the Galician, Cantabrian and Strait coasts, as well as high haze in the Canary Islands. As for the wind, it will blow from the east in Alborán and, with strong intervals, in the Strait. There will be a northeasterly wind on the northwest and southeast coasts, and in the rest they will be weak, from the north in the Canary Islands, from the southeast and south at central hours in much of the interior of the peninsula and variable in the rest.
