The summer heat is anticipated from this Friday in Spain with the arrival of a mass of warm air. “Extraordinarily high temperatures for the time” in a good part of the country, especially in the north of the peninsula and the Canary Islands, according to the forecast of the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet).
For today, anticyclonic weather is expected in almost the entire country, with slightly cloudy or clear skies. Only in Galicia and the Basque Country, low clouds are expected in the interior without ruling out morning fogs, as well as in areas of the Valladolid and Segovian plateau. On the coast of Galicia and western Asturias, coastal fogs. In the Canary Islands, they will not be spared from the haze.
Thermometers will tend to rise this Friday in a general way, although especially in the northern half, the Balearic Islands and the west of the Canary archipelago, on a day in which that community will have a warning for high temperatures and may register up to 32 degrees.
Specifically, high temperature warnings will be in Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura and the Canary Islands. In addition, Cádiz (Andalusia) will be on warning due to coastal phenomena.
Not only will there be a significant rise in temperatures in these points, but twenty provinces will be above 20 degrees: Albacete, Alicante, Córdoba, Ciudad Real, Girona, Murcia, Valencia and Zaragoza, among others.
In the peninsula and the Balearic Islands, Saturday and Sunday will still be very warm days for the season, with daytime values ??between 5 and 10 degrees above normal in the southern half of the country and in the Balearic Islands, and between 10 and 15 degrees above normal. above the average in the northern half, values ??more typical of the end of June than mid-April, continues Aemet.
Both days will once again leave maximums of 25 degrees in large areas of the territory, up to 28-30 degrees also in the eastern and southern halves of the peninsula and even 30 degrees in cities of the Ebro Valley, such as Zaragoza, and southern Galicia. , like Ourense.
It will not only be hot during the day. At night, the minimum temperatures, although they will also be warm for the season. In some areas of the northern half, temperatures may be between 5-10 degrees above normal.