The heat doesn’t let up. The episode of high temperatures, more typical of the summer months, will continue this Thursday in most of Spain, where thermometers will touch or exceed 30 degrees in large areas of the country and will reach 36 in the valleys of the Guadiana and of the Guadalquivir, according to the prediction of the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet).
Minimum temperatures will tend to increase in the mountains of the center and northern half of the peninsula, except in the Pyrenees and surrounding areas where they will decrease, as well as in the southeast of the peninsula and the Canary Islands. A few changes in the rest.
The escalation of the maximums also continues, which will tend to increase more markedly in the extreme north of the peninsula and in the interior of the east and southeast. They will remain at high values ??for the season in most of the Peninsula and, more markedly in the Canary Islands, and may exceed 34-36 degrees in the valleys of the southwest quadrant of the Peninsula and in the Canary Islands. Instead, they will descend in western Galicia and the western Canary Islands.
30 degrees will be exceeded in up to a dozen provincial capitals: Córdoba, Badajoz, Albacete, Almería, Bilbao, Burgos, Cádiz, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Granada, Guadalajara, Huelva, Logroño, Lleida, Ourense, Murcia, Salamanca, Teruel and Palencia, among others.
According to the Aemet forecast, stable weather will prevail in most of the country, with slightly cloudy or clear skies and some intervals of scattered high clouds. However, intervals of low morning clouds are expected in Galicia, the Cantabrian Sea, the Ebro basin, the southeast interior and the Mediterranean area. And some isolated and occasional showers are not ruled out in the eastern Pyrenees and eastern Iberia.
It’s been a record week. This Tuesday was the hottest October 3 in Spain since at least 1950 and also marked the fifth consecutive historical record for a warm day, after the previous four days.
For the remainder of this week, the agency predicts that there will be areas, especially in the northwest of the Peninsula, where maximum temperatures will be between 10 and 15 degrees above normal. It is possible that on Monday there will be a small respite and there will be a somewhat more marked thermal drop in the eastern half and the southern half of the peninsula.
“The anomalous heat for the season will continue at least until Tuesday,” spokesman Rubén del Campo, who finds it difficult to make a forecast for the following days but still anticipates that among the various scenarios, rain cannot be ruled out in Galicia and the Cantabrian Sea in the middle of next week and that temperatures will be “more in line with the time of year” in the north.
