Changes in the weather forecast are constant at the start of the week, where Galicia awaits the arrival of Storm Kirk. Today the entire Community will be on alert due to the power with which the storm will affect this northwest corner, where The alert level will be orange throughout the territory due to heavy rain and wind. At sea, specifically on the coast of the province of Pontevedra, the intensity with which the storm will be felt will raise the red alert. The latest forecasts, which have worsened the situation compared to previous days, yesterday forced municipal councils to take matters into their own hands and activate measures to deal with a day that promises to be complicated, both on land and at sea . He Lugo town hallin the middle of the celebration, decided to suspend the outdoor activities planned in the program of the San Froilán festival. Additionally, the parks will be closed until 6 p.m. Wednesday. Likewise, outdoor sports facilities will close from this Tuesday at 4 p.m. until tomorrow at 6 p.m.
The same precautions were taken by other cities such as Ferrol, which suspended all cultural, sporting, recreational activities and public shows dependent on the town hall and which were to take place outdoors. The cities of Pontevedra, Santiago de Compostela and La Coruña also They blocked all outdoor activities and prohibited access to parks. The Provincial Council of Pontevedra, for its part, has also decided to close the castles of Soutomaior and Sabroso due to the orange alert derived from the remains of Hurricane Kirk.
The Galician Government explained yesterday that, faced with the approaching situation, 112 had alerted the town halls of the affected provinces, the town halls, the provincial services and the Civil Protection volunteer groups and the nautical clubs, among others, of the situation . Regarding the details of the forecasts, the Xunta reported that The storm will cause a strong storm on the Galician coasts with very strong winds from the south and southwest. (eight or nine on the Beaufort scale) and combined westerly sea with waves of six or seven meters, according to the special warning of adverse phenomena issued by the National Meteorological Agency (AEMET). The same agency warned that Storm Kirk would produce a strong Atlantic storm with very strong wind gusts over much of the peninsula. -even locally hurricanes– and widespread precipitation on the Atlantic and Cantabrian slopes.
The organization also warned, regarding the storm that has just made landfall today, that there will be intervals of strong winds on the Galician coasts and very strong gusts in the Cantabrian Sierra and in the north of the Iberian system. Likewise, precipitation will extend over the northwestern third of the peninsula and will likely be locally heavy and persistent. For this part, the state agency warned that even there will be a sudden shift in the wind to the northwest and an intensification of it in the east of the Cantabrian Sea which will give rise to a gale which could arrive in the afternoon.
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