Balearic Islands and Catalonia They are this Friday at yellow alert because of the rain 20 liters per square meter in one hourin addition to wind, storms and rough seas. According to the The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet), Aragon and the Valencian Community are also at the yellow level due to strong wind gusts; Andalusia and Melilla because of maritime storms; And Canary Islands due to heat, strong gusts of wind and a sea storm. For the weekend, a new Atlantic storm would bring instability to the northwest, a prelude to the approach of Hurricane Kirk.
The rains will be “abundant” in Galicia, to the west of the community, and will spread on Sunday. Temperatures will clearly rise and the weekend “will be warm for the season“according to Aemet. They will be defeated 25ºC and even 30ºC in many towns in the southern half, notably in Extremadura, Andalusia, the Valencian Community and the Murcia region. In Guadalquivir, parts of the Valencian Community and the Murcia region it could be around 34ºC on Sunday.
However, the approach of the remnants of Hurricane Kirk early next week will bring temperatures drop to 8ºC between Monday and Tuesdaywarns ElTiempo.es. This fall will be “almost widespread”, with “the entry of a colder air mass which will arrive after the first fronts and rains of the week”. However, the transformation of Kirk’s remains into a storm would have us arriving as early as Wednesday warmer air which would cause thermometers to rise.
Hurricane Kirk has already reached category 4as it moves northwest across the Atlantic, meteorologists warn eltiempo.es. “According to forecasts, over the weekend its trajectory will move towards the north and northwest. Its trajectory could take it next week. in Europe as extratropical storm“. This new storm would enter the continent through the south-west of France and reach Spain between Tuesday and Wednesday with rain and strong gusts of wind northwest of the peninsula.
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“Hurricane Kirk has a minimum pressure at its center of 935 hPa and sustained winds of around 230 km/h, with stronger gusts,” they describe from the portal. As it moves north and northwest, “it will encounter a more unfavorable environment with colder waters and greater wind shear, which will weaken the system.” It’s like this It is likely that “between Sunday and Monday, it will lose the category of major hurricane.”
Looking ahead to Tuesday, it would continue to move towards Europe as a tropical storm. “One of the fronts associated with ex-Kirk could enter through Galicia and on Wednesday, a more active front would enter via the west of the peninsula“The front would be crossed by rains in its passage, which could be heavier in Galicia, on the southern face of the central system, in the Pyrenees and in western Andalusia.”
Another consequence that the approach of the ex-Kirk towards the peninsula could leave would be the strong southwest wind. “On Tuesday it would start to be noticeable in the northwest of the peninsula, but On Wednesday, the situation would intensify. Strong gusts in Galicia, on the Cantabrian coast, in the Pyrenees, in Castile and León and in the Iberian surroundings. The sea could be very altered in the Cantabrian Sea”, concludes the forecast.
