A polar air mass arrives with cold and frost in these areas

THE it’s raining They will concentrate this Friday in Catalonia, more precisely in Girona, with an orange warning due to intense rains which could reach 40 l/m2 in less than an hour in the Empurdán region. In Cadaquéswhich accumulated 100 l/m2 in 12 hours, there were torrential rains. The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet), however, warns against the entry of an Atlantic front to the west of the peninsula, with increased cloudiness and precipitation in Galicia and western Cantabria.

Rain cannot be ruled out in other regions of the country either. northwest third. At the same time, the possibility of showers will persist in the Strait and the Mediterranean area. Temperatures will rise sharply in the Canary Islands, with values ​​above normal on these dates. Minimums will drop in Galicia and the eastern half. The provincial capitals which will record the highest values ​​will be Las Palmas de Gran Canaria with 31ºC; Santa Cruz de Tenerife with 29ºC; and Alicante, Granada, Oviedo, Seville and Valencia with 23ºC.

“This Saturday A front will move into the northern interior of the peninsulaleading to precipitation in these regions,” explains Jose Antonio Maldonadodirector of meteorology at Meteored. “The line of instability will reach the very weakened Mediterranean communities and will not reach the south, where clearings will generally predominate. There will be mist in the Canary Islands.” On Sunday there will be a probability of precipitation on the southern coast of the Gulf of Valencia, the Cantabrian slope, the Iberian cordillera, the Pyrenees and the Balearic Islandswhile the frosts will return to the Pyrenees.

Temperatures will tend to drop over the weekend to values ​​a little more typical of the time of year, with a cooler atmosphere according to Aemet’s forecast. Maximum temperatures will be around 20 degrees in the south of the peninsula and in the Mediterranean area. Next week will still start unsettled in the Mediterranean with the possibility of showers. THE temperatures will drop from Wednesday/Thursday for the arrival of north winds this will promote a colder environment.

“The flow of easterly winds and the high latitude anticyclone protected us from the cold, even if The trend could change next week“, explains for his part Duncan Wingenby Meteored, on the phenomenon that we now call “Scandinavian confinement”. This entry “will produce a renewal of the air mass, with winds from the first quadrant (north and east), and a general drop in temperatures in a large part of the peninsula and the Balearic Islands.

Thus, “looking ahead to Monday, a powerful anticyclonic blockade will again form in the British Isles. On its eastern border, a polar air mass will slide which will decrease in latitude from the Scandinavian countries towards the Mediterraneanforming a deep storm in Italy,” Wingen warns. “The new entry could begin in the middle of next week and the anomalies would persist for at least a week.”

The arrival of cold weather would occur in two phases, explains Wingen. First, starting Wednesday, Maximum temperatures will drop but minimum temperatures will remain “because of wind and clouds”. From Thursday, “once the wind has calmed and the anticyclone has reestablished, the nighttime atmosphere cools considerably. In the serene and cloudless nights, Frosts appear in the plains and valleys“concludes the expert.