Parishioners and pagans are very attentive these days to the weather forecast for Easter, which starts this first weekend of April. According to a new advance from the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet), rains are expected in large areas of Galicia, Cantabria and the Pyrenees and falling temperatures, below those initially expected.
“Looking ahead to the first days of next week, what is going to happen? Anticyclonic weather will predominate, but with the presence of a colder air mass than we currently have and that will cause night temperatures to continue to drop. These nighttime temperatures, aided by clear skies and calming winds, will be quite cold. In fact, there may be frosts between Monday and Wednesday in areas of the interior of the northern half of the peninsula," according to Rubén del Campo, spokesman for Aemet.
Del Campo stressed that the first three days of next week will take place "with a cold environment for the season in the northern half, although daytime temperatures will gradually recover." "There will be a lot of difference between the values at dawn and the temperatures that are recorded in the central hours of the day," he summarized.
For Friday, Spanish meteorologists expect an inactive front in the north of the peninsula, which will leave rainfall, generally weak, in Galicia, the Cantabrian area and the Pyrenees, although it could spread more dispersedly to other areas of the northwest quadrant. In the rest of the country, a stable atmosphere will prevail due to the presence of an anticyclone to the southwest of the Peninsula.
That day no major temperature changes are expected. They will tend to rise on the Mediterranean coast and in the Balearic Islands. The drop in thermometers is scheduled for the following day, Saturday April 1.
In its special forecast for Easter, Aemet expects that, between Saturday 1 and Monday 3 April, there will be a change in the position of the anticyclone, first to the west and then to the north of the Peninsula, "which will cause the entry of a northern component flow”. It will leave rainfall in Galicia, the Cantabrian area and the Pyrenees, which may be locally persistent in the eastern Cantabrian Sea, in the western Pyrenees and in the Aran Valley.
Nor is it ruled out that they will affect other areas in the rest of the northern half and the Balearic Islands in a more dispersed way between Saturday and Sunday. In the rest of the country, slightly cloudy or clear skies predominate, continues the state agency.
Despite the fact that rainfall will tend to decrease on Monday, temperatures will continue to drop throughout the country, although daytime temperatures will begin to recover.
Uncertainty increases from Holy Tuesday. For Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week, "the most likely scenario is the predominance of a stable atmosphere and no precipitation in the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, due to the presence of an anticyclone, although some extreme precipitation is not ruled out." peninsular north. In the Canary Islands, on the other hand, there is a certain tendency towards instability, with the possibility of precipitation.
Temperatures, both maximum and minimum, tend to rise in the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, "although frost will remain in areas of the northern half, which will reach its maximum extent on Tuesday, but with a tendency to decrease."
Even so, Aemet recalls in its statement that the reliability of the predictions is greater at the beginning of the prediction period and decreases as the days go by, so it recommends being attentive to new updates.
