A front will finish crossing the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands this Friday, leaving overcast skies, a notable drop in temperatures and weak rains in the northeastern third of the peninsula, more abundant and persistent in the eastern Cantabrian Sea and the Pyrenees, according to the forecast of the State Meteorological Agency. (Aemet).
Some scattered precipitation in the early hours of the morning in other parts of the eastern third of the peninsula and the mountains of Andalusia, nor the occasional shower in the Balearic Islands and the coasts of Galicia and the Cantabrian Sea, is also not ruled out.
A relief in temperatures is also expected this Friday. According to the agency, they will decrease practically across the board, including notably the maximums in areas of the central north of the peninsula, interiors of the southeast and mountains of the northeast. In few provinces they will reach or exceed 20 degrees. That will be the case of Granada, Murcia, Girona or Almería.
Only weak frosts are expected in mountain areas of the central and northern peninsula, which could be more intense in the Pyrenees. And the snow level will be above 2000 meters in the Pyrenees, dropping to around 1600.
The rains will not end on Friday. During the weekend, anticyclonic weather is expected, with an absence of precipitation in most of the country and rising temperatures. That will be the trend on Saturday, except in the eastern Cantabrian Sea, the Pyrenees, eastern Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, where some scattered precipitation could be recorded.
For that day, maximum temperatures will increase, except on the coasts of the southeastern peninsula and the Balearic Islands where they will decrease. No changes are expected in areas of the northeast. The minimums will decrease, except in the extreme northwest of the peninsula and the midlands of the Canary Islands.
On Sunday instability returns with the entry of a new front that will sweep the extreme north of the peninsula. Cloudy skies and precipitation are expected moving from west to east and affecting the north of Galicia, the Cantabrian slope, the upper Ebro and the western Pyrenees, without ruling out the rest of the areas in the extreme north.