The summer of recent days, with heat more typical of June than of the first days of April, will give a truce this Wednesday and Thursday thanks to a front associated with the Noa squall, which will drop temperatures by up to 10 degrees in large areas Spain and will bring strong winds to the north and east, snow in the Pyrenees and rain and rough seas to the north of the peninsula.
“This Wednesday and Thursday we are going to notice a transitory change in the weather, with a drop in temperatures, strong winds in the north and east of the country, maritime storms and rains in the northern third,” according to Rubén Del Campo, spokesman for the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet).
Del Campo indicated that this situation is caused by “a corridor of cold and humid winds created between the high Atlantic pressures and a storm that will circulate through high latitudes.” This storm has been named Noa by Météo-France (French meteorological service), as it will cause a significant wind storm in that country.
“Starting Friday, however, the anticyclone will dominate again, with a warm environment for the season during the weekend, especially in the central hours of the day, and probably also during the first two days of next week, at except in the southern half of the peninsulaâ€, added Del Campo.
The highlight of this Wednesday will be the drop in temperatures, which in a large part of the northern half from 6 to 10 degrees compared to Tuesday, with an environment more appropriate for the time of year there after the unusual heat of the last days.
However, temperatures will rise up to 11 degrees more in the Mediterranean area due to the influence of winds from the west and northwest, which will blow intensely in large areas of the north and east of the peninsula and, according to Del Campo, “they arrive overheated and very dry in the Mediterranean â€, which increases the risk of fires.
The Aemet prediction, collected by Serivmedia, indicates that the thermal rise will be extraordinary or notable on the Levantine coast (11 degrees more in relation to this Tuesday in Valencia, 8 in Murcia, 7 in Tarragona and 6 in Barcelona). The thermometers will mark more than 32 degrees in the Valencian Community and Murcia.
On the contrary, they will drop in the rest of the peninsula and this drop will be more noticeable in the northwest quadrant and nearby areas, with 10 degrees less in Burgos, Palencia and Vitoria; 9 in León and Valladolid; 8 in Ãvila, Bilbao, Soria and Zamora; 7 in Logroño, Salamanca and Segovia, and 6 in Cáceres, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Lugo, Oviedo, Pamplona and Toledo.
With the passage of the front associated with the Noa storm, it will rain in the extreme north of the peninsula, without ruling out that weak rainfall will appear in points of the Northern Plateau, mountains in the central area and points in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, with a level of snow which will drop to 1,000 meters in the north of the country.
This Thursday the intense winds from the northwest will continue in the north and east of the peninsula, as well as in the Balearic Islands, with maritime storms and some rain, generally not very intense, in points of the Balearic archipelago and the extreme north of the peninsula.
It may rain more persistently in the eastern Cantabrian Sea and northern Navarre, and it will snow in the Pyrenees, with a snow level that in the early hours will be below 1,000 meters, although it will go up to 1,200 to 1,400 meters.
Temperatures will drop and there will be frosts at dawn in inland areas of the northern half, specifically in cities such as Ãvila, Burgos, Pamplona, ​​Soria, Teruel and Vitoria.
In the central hours of the day, there will be a marked drop in temperatures in the eastern half of the peninsula and in the Balearic Islands, which on the shores of the Mediterranean will be up to 10 degrees compared to the previous day. “In other words, what goes up on Wednesday goes down on Thursday,” said Del Campo.
Thus, the temperatures will be the same for the time of year or even cold in the northern half, especially the minimum ones, which in areas of Castilla y León could be between 5 and 10 degrees below their normal average. “We went from a warm environment to a cold environment quickly, as is usual in spring,” stressed Del Campo.
The Noa storm will stop influencing the weather as of this Friday, when high pressures will be imposed, although a new front associated with another Atlantic storm will sweep the northern end of the peninsula.
However, this front will not be very active and the rains it leaves will be weak, if anything more abundant in points of Galicia and eastern Cantabria. The sky will be clearer in the rest of the country and temperatures will rise again.
On Friday there will no longer be as extensive early morning frosts as on Thursday, although they could occur in mountainous areas, moors in the center and the southern third, and the Levantine area. Thermometers will exceed 25 degrees in many places.
The wind will blow from the west and northwest on the peninsula, something intense in the north of Aragon and Catalonia, and which will give rise, together with the high temperatures, to a very high risk of fires in the eastern third of the peninsula. “This very high risk of fire will probably remain there through the weekend,†Del Campo added.
The anticyclone will dominate the weather scene this weekend, when temperatures will be higher across the country. In the extreme north of the peninsula there will be some clouds and it may rain lightly, but in the rest the skies will continue to be clear. The frosts will practically disappear, although Saturday will be a somewhat cool day in points of the extreme north. In the rest of Spain the warm atmosphere for the season will return.
On Sunday, in fact, the maximum temperatures will be between 5 and 10 degrees above the normal average in most of the territory, and the minimum will be more in line for mid-April. “Therefore, there will be a marked difference between the cool environment typical of the early morning and early morning hours, and the hotter-than-normal environment in the early afternoon. On Sunday, in fact, it could exceed 28 to 30 degrees in the early afternoon in large areas of the southern half and even in the Guadalquivir valley it could be around 33 or 34 degrees, “said Del Campo.
As for the next week, on Monday and Tuesday there will be no great variations in time. The dry environment will continue, although there could be some showers in the northeast of the peninsula and the Balearic Islands.
Temperatures will drop slightly in some places, although they will continue to be clearly above normal in the southern half of the peninsula.
Regarding the Canary Islands, the most relevant thing on Wednesday and Thursday will be the northeast trade wind, which will blow with very strong gusts and cause maritime storms. There will be a presence of calima, although with a tendency to disappear on Thursday. Temperatures will be high on Wednesday and drop the following day.
With a view to the weekend, the sun will shine on the Canary Islands, with some intervals in the north of the most mountainous islands. Temperatures will drop on Friday and rise on the following days.
