Goodbye to the stable weather and unusually high temperatures of what is known as the San Martín summer. For this week, the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) expects a first taste of winter cold, with a drastic drop in thermometers, snow in the mountains and night frosts in inland areas.
This Monday will be a day of transition for the peninsula and the Balearic Islands between anticyclonic weather and a situation of greater instability that will affect the northern half of the peninsula and the archipelago, where cloud cover will increase from northwest to southeast.
According to Aemet, cloudiness will increase from northwest to southeast in the northern half and in the Balearic Islands, with precipitation in the Cantabrian area, upper Ebro, northern Iberian and Pyrenees. Scattered rains are not ruled out in other areas of Galicia, this part of the Central system and the rest of the Iberian system. In the second half of the day, showers may occur with a low probability in the northeast of Catalonia.
This Monday will also be marked by abundant low cloudiness at first in the northern plateau, Ebro, coastal areas of the eastern peninsula and western Andalusia and in the Balearic Islands, with morning mists and fogs being probable.
For today, a first drastic drop in temperatures is expected throughout the country, except for the maximum in areas in the south of the Mediterranean area. This fall will be even more pronounced in the mountains of the northern half, with weak frosts in the Pyrenees. Few changes in the Canary Islands, where temperatures will maintain atypically high values for the time of year, exceeding 30 degrees in some points.
With low probability, it could snow at levels of 1,200 to 1,400 meters in the western Cantabrian Mountains, and between 1,400 and 1,600 meters in the Pyrenees.
According to Aemet's forecast, during the week of November 20 to 26, an Atlantic circulation will enter with colder air, which will leave large amounts of rain in the northern third and the Balearic Islands, although they will be less likely in the Iberian and Central systems and without ruling them out. in areas of both plateaus and in the southeastern mountains. In the mountains they will be in the form of snow.
Regarding temperatures, the agency warns that we will experience a general decrease in the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, notable in inland points and with "frosts in the mountain systems."
