The arrival of a mass of cold air of polar maritime origin will cause a significant change in weather, with widespread precipitation and a sharp drop in temperatures. Lower values ??than normal for the season will be reached and with probable snowfall in mountain systems and surrounding areas, according to the weather forecast from the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) for the next few days of Holy Week.

It will rain, especially, in the afternoon. With uncertainty, rainfall is expected to be more intense in a wide area from Andalusia to Navarra.

The rains may be accompanied by storms in Alborán, the Balearic Islands, the center and south of the peninsula and, in the late hours, on the Galician coasts. They will be in the form of snow in the northern mountains and Sierra Morena, without ruling out the center, with 5 centimeters in the Pyrenees.

Scattered morning mists and fog banks will also form in the mountains, as well as intermittent fog during the day due to the passage of fronts. There will be haze in the southeast half of the peninsula and the Balearic Islands.

Maximum temperatures will suffer a notable general decrease, with the exception of the Cantabrian area and the upper Ebro, which could be locally extraordinary in some areas of the southern half of the peninsula, with up to 10 degrees less than the values ??recorded yesterday, Sunday.

The snow level will also drop to 600 meters in the northwest, 800 meters in the rest of the west, 1,000 meters in the center and central north, 1,400 meters in the Pyrenees and above 2,000 meters in the southeast.

Instability will continue on Tuesday with widespread and intermittent rainfall, less intense and probable in the Mediterranean area. This day, the collapse of the elevation will extend to the rest of the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, highlighting the possible snowfall at low elevations, Aemet continues in an informative note.

During this day, the drop in temperatures will continue to be widespread and very pronounced in the western half, with values ??lower than normal for the time.