This weekend, the last of March and the first of the astronomical spring, will bring a mild and sunny environment in most of Spain, a 'roller coaster' of limited temperatures and rainfall, especially in Galicia and other areas of the north of the peninsula.
The prediction of the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet), collected by Servimedia, indicates that temperatures will rise this Saturday in the Canary Islands and a large part of the interior of the peninsula, especially a large part of the southern half, and will drop in the Mediterranean provinces. The hottest capital will be Murcia (30 degrees).
On Sunday an inverse situation will take place, since they will descend in large areas of the interior of the peninsula and will ascend on the Mediterranean façade. It will be hotter in Murcia (32) and Valencia (30).
The rains will appear on Saturday especially in Galicia and the Cantabrian provinces, and on Sunday these rainfalls, generally weak, will spread to the Pyrenees and other areas of Castilla y León.
“This weekend we will have generally stable weather, with rainfall limited to Galicia and weaker to other isolated points in the extreme north of the peninsula. In the Pyrenees there could be some light snowfall, but, in general, little. In the rest of the country we don't expect rainfall”, summed up Rubén del Campo, spokesman for Aemet.
Temperatures on Saturday will be between 5 and 10 degrees above normal for the time of year in the east and south of the peninsula. “In the northwest, on the other hand, the environment will be cooler. There will even be some weak night frosts in mountain areas and in points of the plateau”, indicated Del Campo.
Instead, the Aemet spokesman stressed that temperatures will drop on Sunday in large parts of the peninsula due to the arrival of cooler winds from the west and northwest, which will arrive "overheated and very dry" in the Mediterranean regions. Thus, 30 or 32 degrees could be reached in points in the south of the Valencian Community, Murcia and southern Andalusia.
“The risk of fires will again be very high or extreme in large areas of the eastern peninsular third, precisely because of these high temperatures and the wind, which can blow with some strong gusts. Therefore, precautions will have to be taken in this regard”, Del Campo warned.
On the other hand, next Monday the temperatures will drop at dawn, when it will freeze slightly in mountain points, the Northern Plateau and central moors. The daytime will also decrease in the Mediterranean area as the west and northwest winds stop blowing, which will reduce the risk of fires.
"On Monday the temperatures will begin to rise in the western half, a thermal rise that will be progressive and general during the following days at least until Thursday, with daytime temperatures that in the central part of the week will be much higher than the normal average for the time of year,” Del Campo said.
Thus, it will be possible to exceed 30 degrees or more in the Guadiana and Guadalquivir valleys, and the interior of the Levantine area, where the risk of fires will again be very high from Wednesday or Thursday. This situation of high temperatures for the time of year could continue until Friday. From that day on there is already uncertainty.
“In fact, a thermal drop could already begin on Friday in the west of the peninsula, which would become general on Saturday and, in addition, would be notable. But this will have to be confirmed yet. As for the rains, although it cannot be ruled out that on Friday or Saturday they may affect most of the peninsula, it is most likely that they will remain limited to the northwest and northern third of the peninsula, at least the most abundant, and very little rainfall is expected in the east and south,” Del Campo concluded.
