Madrid (EFE).- Given the high values of these days, Holy Week will begin with lower temperatures, according to the time of year, to give way to stable days, without ruling out rain from Good Friday, especially on the southwest of the peninsula due to the approach of an Atlantic storm.
cool weekend
Although this weekend the weather is expected to be cool and variable, from Monday to Holy Thursday atmospheric stability would be more assured, with calm days, hardly any rain and rising temperatures, despite the cold night, which will lead to a “marked thermal contrast ”between day and night, has advanced Rubén Del Campo, spokesman for Aemet.
This Friday it will rain in Galicia and Cantabria, while in the rest of the country it will be clearer and with falling temperatures, Del Campo has detailed, to stress that, on the contrary, in the Mediterranean and the Balearic Islands the maximum will rise.
In this way, today it will be possible to exceed 30-31 degrees in cities like Malaga, Alicante or Valencia and up to 34 degrees in the city of Murcia: “It is again a very warm day to be at the end of March and with a very high risk of fires in the east of the Peninsula”.
The thermometer will mark 29 degrees in capitals such as Seville, 27 degrees in Zaragoza, 26 degrees in Tarragona and Jaén, while in the center of Toledo and Madrid they will register 23 and 21 degrees, respectively.
On Saturday, with the turn of the winds to the northwest, a “remarkable thermal drop” is expected in the Ebro Valley, the Mediterranean coast and the Balearic Islands, as well as rains in Galicia, the Cantabrian Sea and the Pyrenees area, and a level of snow in the north of the peninsula close to 1,000 meters, with “significant snow accumulations in the Pyrenees”.
Del Campo has indicated that that day may also develop “some more isolated and scattered showers in the rest of the north and in central points of the Peninsula, as well as in the Balearic Islands.”
On Sunday the temperatures will drop again, more pronounced in the east of the peninsula and in the Balearic Islands, and even with night frosts in mountain points, isolated areas of the plateau and central páramos.
“The day will be cool for this time of year, especially in the north, with localities whose maximum temperatures could be up to 5 degrees below the normal average.”
Thus, capitals such as Burgos or Vitoria, for example, will barely reach 11 or 12 degrees, while in the rest, the atmosphere will continue to be more temperate and spring-like; that day Seville and Huelva will reach 26 degrees.
stable and warm week
Holy Monday will begin with hardly any rainfall, except in the extreme north and the Balearic Islands, although the presence of cold winds will cause frost to form that morning in mountainous areas and points on the northern plateau and central moors; in Ávila it will drop to 1 degree below zero.
During the day, the daytime temperatures will rise, but in cities like Pamplona or Vitoria the cool atmosphere will still persist and it will not reach 15 degrees, while in Seville and areas of the Guadalquivir Valley it will be around 28 degrees.
On Tuesday and Wednesday the environment will remain very stable in almost the entire country, with night frosts in parts of the northern, central plateau and mountain areas, and daytime values that will exceed 18-20 degrees in large areas of the territory and 25 degrees in the south and 28-30 degrees again in the Guadalquivir Valley.
The spokesman explained that a “marked thermal contrast of 18 to 20 degrees” is expected between the temperatures in the early morning, which are colder, and those in the early afternoon, which are more temperate.
On Holy Thursday the environment will remain stationary, with rising values, but it is possible that by Good Friday and the following days the high pressures will withdraw to northern Europe, to give way to low Atlantic pressures that would favor showers, in the southwest of the peninsula.
