Madrid (EFE) Bleak wintry weather to continue into next week.
According to the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet), uncertainty has increased in the position of the depression in height, although it is most likely that it will weaken and move to the east, causing a loss of rainfall intensity over the weekend. .
This situation has put Andalusia, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia, the Region of Murcia, and the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla on notice due to snowfall, rain and storms or coastal phenomena.
At dawn from Friday to Saturday, the municipality of San Pedro Manrique (Soria) has registered, according to Aemet, the coldest temperature in Spain, with 14.1 degrees below zero, followed by the Astún station (Huesca) with 11, 5 below zero and Sierra Nevada (Granada), with 11.4 below zero.
Temperatures below zero
But localities such as Port Ainé, in Lleida (-10.2); Celer, Cogulla, Huesca, and La Póveda de Soria (-9.6); Torla-Ordesa, El Cebollar (Huesca) and Puerto del Pico, in Ávila (-9.3); The ski resort of La Covatilla, in Salamanca, (-8.7) and Monterrubio de la Demanda, in Burgos (-8.2).
Likewise, in Soria (-6), Teruel and Pamplona and Burgos (-5), Palencia (-4), Ávila and Huesca (-3), as well as Cuenca, Granada, Guadalajara, Logroño, Segovia and Zamora (-2) and in Albacete, Madrid, Salamanca, and Vitoria (-1).
In La Rioja, the regional government has forced drivers to use vehicle chains to circulate due to the accumulation of snow on several roads and maintains feasibility teams on the regional road network.
Snow level at 700/900 meters
The winter situation will continue this Sunday with snowfall at low levels in the extreme north of the peninsula, frost in much of the interior and strong winds in the northeast quadrant, Galicia, the Balearic Islands, Cantabria and Alborán, according to Aemet.
The snow level in the northeastern half of the peninsula will be at 700/900 meters, dropping to 0/200 meters in the northeast quadrant, and at 200/500 meters in the rest; while in the southwest of the peninsula it will be at 700/900 meters.
The maximum temperatures will drop in the northeast third of the peninsula, except in the interior of Catalonia and the northeast of Aragon where they will increase, as in the rest of the country, while the minimum will drop in the extreme northwest and northeast of the peninsula, and, in general, will register an increase in the rest of the areas of the northern half and in the Canary Islands.
There will be weak frosts in large areas of the peninsular interior, more intense in mountain areas.
On Monday it is likely that it will not exceed 5 degrees in large areas of the northern half of the peninsula. As of Tuesday, a gradual recovery of daytime temperatures is expected, according to the State Meteorological Agency.