Starting this Monday, Spain will no longer be under the influence of Storm Monica, which this weekend has left behind strong wind and waves on the northern coast of the peninsula, and abundant snow in mountainous areas, with significant incidents. on roads in several autonomous communities.
The storm is leaving, although this Monday locally strong or persistent rainfall is expected in the eastern end of the Cantabrian Sea and significant snowfall in the Pyrenees and intervals of strong wind in the Cantabrian Sea, under the Ebro, on the coast of eastern Andalusia and the Balearic Islands, according to the forecast of the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet).
The agency also does not rule out that, in the second half of the day, there will be showers accompanied by storms in the northeast of Catalonia. Cloudy skies will also predominate at first in a good part of the rest of the Peninsula, with probable weak and scattered precipitation in other areas of the northern half, tending to become clear.
It will be in the only areas where it will rain or have some instability, because the anticyclonic weather is expected to gain ground starting today and to increase in the coming days.
This will be noticeable in temperatures, which will tend to increase. For this Monday, the maximums are expected to rise and the minimums will increase in the northeast, without major changes in the rest. The weak frosts will continue in the mountains of the northern half of the peninsula and the southeast, more intense in the Pyrenees.
The week will start with intense wind. They will have a western component in the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, with strong intervals in the Cantabrian Sea, under the Ebro, the coast of eastern Andalusia and the Balearic Islands. Given the forecast of gusts of up to 70 kilometers per hour, the agency has activated the yellow warning (risk) in the Valencian Community, Catalonia and the Balearic Islands.