Winter set to return this weekend

If you dug your shorts out earlier in the week, you may have been slightly premature, especially given the ups and downs of conditions compared to normality, as meteorologists forecast a significant change in the weather from today and for the end of this week through the weekend.

If the forecast maps come true, we are about to enter a true winter situation thanks to the entry of a north westerly storm that can bring strong winds, rain, cold and snow. If the maps come true, it will be an intense polar jet that some experts do not rule out could become a high-impact storm.

From today, there will be a sharp drop in temperatures in certain areas, but the situation will not be anywhere close to a cold wave because we are coming from high temperatures for the time of year. We will return to winter temperatures with northerly winds that will most affect the northern half of the peninsula.

The snow level will drop on Thursday to between 700 and 1,000 metres in the northern third and, with less probability, it could snow from 800 to 1.00 metres in the Central System and the east of the Iberian System. Temperatures will decrease in the northwest and increase on the Mediterranean slope and the Canary Islands. During the day, it will be warmer in Murcia (27) and Alicante, Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Valencia (25), and colder in Burgos (12) and León, Lugo, Madrid and Palencia (13).

It will be on Friday the 23rd when the cold moves towards the Mediterranean and on Saturday we will welcome an Atlantic storm that will anchor throughout the weekend. From the Aemet, its spokesperson, Cayetano Torres, explains this entry of an Atlantic front: “On Friday, a northwest situation awaits us with typically winter weather due to the post-frontal cold discharge, which will affect practically the entire northwest half of the peninsula.”

Snow is expected in mountainous areas of the north, also in the Pyrenees, although it is not ruled out that, due to the drop in temperatures, it may snow at lower levels of the Northern Plateau (significant amounts in areas of the northwest of Castilla y León, the east of Galicia and west of Asturias). The rain will stay in the northeast of Catalonia, the north of the Balearic Islands and the east of Andalusia. The humid Atlantic flow will leave cloudiness and precipitation in the northwest quadrant and the Pyrenees, more abundant in Galicia and the Cantabrian area. Temperatures will drop generally and sharply, with notable decreases in the Cantabrian area and the eastern half of the peninsula. There will be early morning frosts in the mountains of the northern half and the southeastern mountain ranges, and they are not ruled out in much of the Northern Plateau and the east of the Southern Plateau. During the day it will be cooler in Segovia (6) and Ávila, León and Soria (7), and it will be warmer in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (23), Santa Cruz de Tenerife (22) and Alicante (20).

February will say goodbye with a cloudy Saturday throughout the Peninsula. It will rain in the northern third and perhaps in the rest of the peninsular mountain systems, with more abundance in Galicia and the western Pyrenees. Maximum temperatures will increase especially in the northwest third. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Santa Cruz de Tenerife (21), and Alicante, Tarragona and Valencia (18) could have the highest values, and Segovia (5), Ávila (7) and Cuenca, León and Soria (8), the lowest ones. Intense winds from the west are expected to blow in the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, with strong intervals or very strong gusts in the Cantabrian Sea and the Mediterranean, the northern plateau and in the mountains of the eastern third. In the Canary Islands the trade wind will blow, which will blow with strong intervals. Sunday could also be a cloudy day with widespread rain. Temperatures would tend to rise, with 22 degrees in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and 20 in Alicante and Valencia, and 8 in Segovia and Soria, and 9 in Burgos, Cuenca and Huesca.

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