The cold front associated with Storm Bert today motivated the activation of weather alerts in eleven autonomous communities due to the strong storm, intense rains and wind, with gusts that in many places will again exceed the 100 kilometers per hour and which in certain points can be “hurricanes”.
The warning is “orange” (high risk) on the Galician coast due to strong waves, and the National Meteorological Agency (AEMET) has announced that waves will reach up to 6 meters.
AEMET has activated the “yellow” warning (risk) of rain in six autonomous communities (Andalusia, Aragon, Castile and León, Catalonia, Extremadura and Galicia) due to the forecast of accumulations of 15 liters per square meter in one hour in the provinces of Cádiz, Cordoba and Seville, and 40 liters per square meter in twelve hours in many places in the northern half.
In addition to the “orange” alert, which focuses on the coasts of Galicia, “yellow” level alerts have also been activated due to strong waves in the communities of Asturias and Cantabria, taking into account the forecast according to which the waves will reach a height of up to 5 meters.
Wind warnings, also at the “yellow” level, have been activated in the communities of Aragon, Castilla y León, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia, Navarra and La Rioja, and Aemet forecasts indicate that gusts of 80 kilometers per time will be reached. hour in many places, although he warned that these gusts would exceed 100 kilometers at high altitude.
The general forecast for today from the Meteorological Agency indicates that very strong gusts of wind will be recorded in large areas of the northwest quadrant, in the Cantabrian Sea, in the Pyrenees and in the Iberian system, without excluding that they can be locally “hurricanes” in the high altitudes of the Cantabrian, North Iberian and Pyrenean mountain ranges.
The rains will be persistent and locally heavy to the west of the central and Cantabrian system, to the south of Galicia and the Pyrenees, and the front associated with Storm Bert will also cause a locally notable drop in temperatures in the areas of Galicia, Castile and León and the Cantabrian Sea.
Aemet announced that although temperatures will drop today and tomorrow, the rest of the week will be significantly warmer than normal for this time of year, and also that rainfall will be below normal on the coast Cantabrian, in a large part. from the east and south of the peninsula and in the two archipelagos.
The effects of Storm Bert, which will be felt today in many autonomous communities, were very pronounced over the weekend, with a very strong maritime storm in Galicia and the eastern Cantabrian Sea, with waves of up to 6 meters and very strong winds. strong, with “hurricane” gusts that exceeded 120 kilometers per hour in the Cantabrian Sierra and rains that left accumulations of up to 80 liters per square meter in twelve hours on the coast. Galician.
Data collected by Aemet reveals that yesterday wind gusts of up to 236 kilometers per hour were reached at Mirador del Cable (Cantabria), in the Picos de Europa National Park, and greater than 140 at high altitude in the provinces of Asturias and Palencia.
