Rainfall will affect a large part of the northern half throughout the weekend and temperatures will drop in the northeast and the Balearic Islands while they will rise in the western half, according to the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET).
The AEMET spokesman, Cayetano Torres, has detailed that he expects the weekend to begin with slightly cloudy skies in the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, except in Galicia where, as it progresses on Friday, weak rainfall and evolutionary cloudiness are expected in mountainous areas of the third this.
Torres expects temperatures of more than 30ºC in the Tagus, Guadiana, Guadalquivir, Ebro valleys, eastern Cantabrian area and Valladolid. The minimum temperatures will rise these weeks in the Mediterranean area and the Canary Islands, where they will remain unchanged. In general, he points out that these temperatures will be between 10 and 15 degrees above normal.
On Saturday, instability will increase, with showers and storms in a large part of the northern half, which may be locally strong in the eastern part of the Cantabrian mountain range, the Iberian system and the Pyrenees. For its part, in the southern half and in the Mediterranean area the skies will be slightly cloudy and with clouds of evolution in the interior and scattered showers will be likely.
Regarding Sunday, the AEMET forecasts that the rainfall will be restricted to areas of the eastern Cantabrian Sea and the eastern third of the peninsula, although they will be accompanied by storms and will be more intense in the east. Temperatures will generally rise in the western half, and will drop in the northeast quadrant and in the Balearic Islands on Sunday, while there will be little change in the rest.
The winds will blow from the west component on the Atlantic and Cantabrian slopes and will turn north on Sunday. In the Mediterranean area, the winds will come from the east and the northeast.
In the Canary Islands on Sunday they will have intervals of low clouds in the north, and probable weak precipitations in those of greater relief, with trade winds with strong intervals.
As for next week, the spokesman hopes that it will start with a stable situation, with sunny or slightly cloudy skies or perhaps with some high clouds in the Balearic Islands and the Peninsula.
However, cloudiness will increase on Tuesday and Wednesday with probable rainfall in the extreme north, which may be more intense around the Cantabrian mountain range and the Pyrenees on Tuesday, and in the form of showers and storms in the northeast of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands on Wednesday. In the rest of the Peninsula, intervals of high clouds and cloudiness of evolution in the mountainous systems.
Thursday sees it likely that the rainfall will affect the eastern Cantabrian Sea, the Pyrenees, the northeast of Catalonia and other areas of the eastern Mediterranean area. As of Friday, stability will be recovered, although the AEMET does not rule out some scattered precipitation in the eastern Cantabrian area, the Pyrenees and the northeast of the Balearic Islands.
Regarding the temperatures, Torres expects that on Monday they will experience an "almost general" rise, although on Tuesday and Wednesday they will drop.
The winds will predominate from the west and north, they will be strong or with strong intervals in the northeast of the peninsula and the Balearic Islands, especially from Wednesday and it could also blow strong easterly in the Strait and strong trade winds or with strong intervals in the Canary Islands, which will have low clouds in the north of the islands. In the archipelago, temperatures will rise from Monday to Wednesday but will begin to drop from Thursday.
Finally, the AEMET spokesman comments that despite the fact that long-term models point to temperatures above normal for the next six months and rainfall aligned with the average, a rainy October is in sight that could attract a humid autumn.
With an average temperature over mainland Spain of 14.9 °C, a value 3.0 °C above the average for this month (ref. period 1991-2020), last April exceeded, by 0.1ºC, April 2011, which was the warmest since the series began in 1961
