That summer feeling expected to end from today (for now)

The summer weather, hot and dry, that most of Spain has experienced throughout the Easter break, is set to end from today, with much needed rain in places and temperatures that will return to normal values ​​for this time of year. However, this ‘normality’ will be ephemeral, since on Friday the mercury will rise again and rainfall will cease, as announced the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET).

The AEMET spokesperson, Rubén del Campo, says that the change in temperatures will arrive on Wednesday because an Atlantic front will sweep the Peninsula from west to east, leaving rains in the northern third and a marked drop in temperatures throughout the country, which “temporarily will return to thermal values ​​more typical of this time of year”.

Del Campo points out that cloudiness will increase, rainfall will be recorded in the northern third, although the rains will only be significant in Galicia, Cantabrian communities, northern Navarra and the Pyrenees. “The rest will be four drops,” he comments before adding that there will be some instability in the Canary Islands, where stormy showers are not ruled out.

The temperatures will drop clearly in most of the Peninsula and in the northwest, this drop will be up to 8 to 10 ºC compared to the previous day, so cities like Burgos, León or Oviedo will not exceed 15ºC and the snow level in the northern third it will drop to 1,000 metres. “However, we cannot speak of cold either, but of normal temperatures for the time of year or somewhat cooler than normal in the northwest,” explains Del Campo, who adds that in the rest of the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands there will still be high temperatures for the time.

In the eastern end of the peninsula, the winds from the west and northwest will arrive dry and overheated, so the thermometers will clearly rise, so that in cities like Murcia and Valencia they will be around 33 or 34ºC and in the Mediterranean regions there will be a risk of fires “very high or extreme”.

Thursday will dawn with cold weather in the northern half, even with frost in mountain areas, on the northern plateau and in the central páramos. Burgos, Soria, Palencia or Teruel could dawn below zero and the temperature drop will be noticeable especially in the east of the Peninsula and in the Balearic Islands, where they will drop from 8 to 10ºC compared to the previous day.

The front could leave some isolated showers in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands. In the extreme north, the skies will be cloudy and with light rain and there will be minimum temperatures of 10ºC, while dry and windy weather will predominate in the rest of the country, especially in the Bay of Biscay, the northeast of the peninsula, the Mediterranean area and in the Canary Islands.

As of Friday and the weekend, the spokesperson expects the anticyclone to return and “guarantees stable weather and no rainfall” in much of the country, although on Friday in Galicia and other points in the far north a front could drop weak rain. Temperatures will settle again with more than 30 or 32ºC in the Guadalquivir valley. In the Canary Islands, temperatures will also rise and there will be trade winds with strong gusts.

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