The almost autumnal weather in the middle of August that began this Thursday in the north of the peninsula says goodbye this Friday with areas that will hardly reach 20 degrees, while the intense heat will continue in areas of Andalusia and Extremadura. In fact, the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) has announced that the third heat wave of this summer in Spain will probably be recorded next week, which will last until next Saturday.
Meanwhile, the abrupt change in weather came this Thursday due to the entry of northwesterly winds caused by an atmospheric corridor between the deep storm Patricia -the first in August in Spain since at least 2017- and the anticyclone of the Azores. This Friday the general temperature drop will cause minimums in the provinces of Ávila and Palencia below 10 degrees, while in the lower and middle Ebro, Estrecho and l'Empordà will blow very strong gusts of wind, which will put Catalonia on orange alert for most of the day.
The prediction of the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) indicates that temperatures will rise in Galicia and the provinces of Cádiz and Huelva, while they will drop in most of the rest of the country. The maximum will oscillate between 36 and 37 degrees in Badajoz, Huelva, Granada, Seville and Córdoba. The decline will be notable in a strip that passes through Almería, Murcia, Albacete, Cuenca and Teruel.
The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) forecasts that temperatures will continue to be significantly high in the southern third. The maximum will oscillate between 36 and 37 degrees in Badajoz, Huelva, Granada, Seville and Córdoba.
The coolest capitals will be Vitoria (20 degrees) and Burgos, Oviedo, Pamplona and Soria (21). Instead, it will heat up more in Córdoba and Seville (37), and Badajoz, Granada and Huelva (36).
Many areas of the interior of the northern half of the peninsula will have temperatures more typical of late summer or early autumn than of the equator of the summer season.
On the other hand, the sky will be cloudy in eastern Catalonia and in the Balearic Islands, where there will be morning showers accompanied by storms that will move from north to south and may continue during the afternoon, although with a tendency to subside.
Scattered showers are not ruled out in the southeast of the peninsula and the Valencian Community, as well as light rainfall in Malaga. In the extreme north of the peninsula there will be clouds and it will rain in the north of Galicia, the Cantabrian area and the north face of the Pyrenees, although they will refer from west to east, except in the eastern Cantabrian.
The Canary Islands will have cloudy intervals in the north, without ruling out some isolated drizzle. In the rest of the country the sun will shine.
Lastly, this Friday winds will blow from the north in a large part of the peninsula, with strong tramontana in l'Empordà (Girona) and strong intervals in the north of the Balearic Islands and north winds in the Ebro, where very strong gusts are likely to be expected in its low section.
There will be easterly component winds in the rest of the Mediterranean area, with strong intervals on the coasts, and from the west rolling to the east in the Strait, as well as trade winds with strong intervals in the Canary Islands.
The Aemet spokesman, Rubén del Campo, points out that after a cold Friday and Saturday morning for the time, on Saturday the temperatures will begin to rise progressively and generally and warns that "the heat will be intense in large part from Spain during the coming week".
"It is likely that we will be, starting Monday or Tuesday, in the third heat wave, after the two registered in July and, in addition, this could last a good part of next week," he warned.
Thus, he specifies that this new warm episode will be produced by the arrival of a mass of warm air from North Africa, together with a stabilization of the weather caused by a ridge, that is, an area of high pressure associated with warm air that will cover all our geography.
He also explains that since these high pressures favor a stable atmosphere in which there are hardly any clouds and the sun shines brightly, the surface will heat up "intensely" and that heat, in turn, is subsequently transmitted to the air. Also, due to atmospheric stability, heat is retained in the lower layers of the atmosphere and temperatures rise a lot. "All this is what will configure, as we say, next week's warm episode," he justifies.
