Madrid, Feb 28 (EFE).- The Juliette storm formed in the Mediterranean has left new snowfalls in low levels of the north of the peninsula with numerous roads affected, especially secondary ones and with special intensity in the Balearic Islands, where the extreme risk alert persists, now for maritime storm and waves of more than 8 meters.
The cold air “which has arrived driven in part by Storm Juliette, together with an anticyclone located to the north of the British Isles”, is leaving freezing temperatures, below normal for the time in many areas and snowfall at very low levels. , explained this Tuesday the spokesman for the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) Rubén del Campo.
According to the predictions, the snowfall in Mallorca will continue in the next few hours, although the level will go up until it is above 900 meters. Below these levels, according to del Campo, it will rain heavily, hail may fall and the waves will be “an extreme danger,” warns the Aemet spokesman.
In the early hours of the morning, except for Extremadura, the rest of the autonomous communities maintained a weather alert for very low temperatures, snowfall, rain, wind and maritime storms on the northern Mediterranean coast, although the situation has been improving.
Castilla-La Mancha woke up this Tuesday, along with the Balearic Islands, at a red level, with extreme risk, but in this case due to very cold minimum temperatures, which in the case of Molina de Aragón (Guadalajara) have dropped to -16 degrees this morning.
Today, according to the Aemet spokesperson, the peninsular heights will be from zero to 300 meters in the northeast while thicknesses of 2 to 5 centimeters are expected in other areas of the north, occasionally higher and from 400 or 500 meters in the Cantabrian communities, north of Castilla y León, Navarra and La Rioja.
By mid-morning the road situation had improved and it was necessary to drive with caution only on two of the main network due to snow, specifically on the A-67 as it passes through Pesquera, in Cantabria, and on the AP -1 at Cardeñajimeno (Burgos).
Of the rest of the roads, just over 600 kilometers were still affected by snow, of which almost 500 kilometers required chains in certain sections or were occasionally cut off to traffic, especially in mountain areas of communities such as Asturias, Aragón, Cantabria, Castilla y León and in the Balearic Islands.
According to Aemet, daytime temperatures are expected to tend to rise, and they will do so notably in the east of the peninsula, although they will still not exceed 6 or 8 degrees in many parts of the territory.
In recent hours, snow has been seen in coastal areas of the northern half, for example in cities like San Sebastián or in the Mediterranean, in points on the coast of Tarragona or in the city of Barcelona itself.
In the case of Barcelona, there has been the most intense snowfall since March 2018, according to the Aemet spokesperson; The snowfall in the Balearic Islands has also been “very remarkable”, where the level has been located at only 100 meters.
In some points in the north of Mallorca, the thicknesses have been greater than one meter in 24 hours from 800 meters above sea level.
The wind has also been very intense in the extreme east of Mallorca, and also in mountainous areas of the peninsula during the early morning. For example, in Alto del León, in the community of Madrid, they have exceeded 105 kilometers per hour.
Looking ahead to tomorrow, Wednesday, a “really cold” start to the meteorological spring is expected, according to Rubén del Campo, with again very low minimum temperatures, below 8 or 10 degrees below zero in mountain areas and probably also in we stopped.
The minimum will be between 5 and 10 degrees below normal for the time of year in most of the Peninsula and the maximum will also be cold, explained the Aemet spokesman.
There will be snowfall from about 200 meters, or occasionally even below, in eastern Galicia, inland Asturias, Cantabria, northern Castilla y León. Snowfall is also not ruled out at low altitudes in the Basque Country and north of Navarra.
There may also be some showers in the Levante area and in the Balearic Islands, with a snow level that will be around 500 or 600 meters.
