Almost all the communities and the autonomous city of Ceuta, except the Canary Islands, Navarra and Melilla, suffered from intense wind, strong sea storms, widespread rain and snow in the mountains. The most serious warning, red level, the maximum, is for rough seas in Galicia, which also has a yellow warning, the lowest of three, for wind and snow. The level is orange, the second step of the Meteoalert system, in Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Cantabria, Castilla-La Mancha, Murcia, the Basque Country and the Valencian Community. On the other hand, there is yellow in the Balearic Islands, Castilla y León, Catalonia, Extremadura, Galicia, Community of Madrid, La Rioja and Ceuta.
“Herminia is causing gusts of more than 120 kilometers per hour in parts of the northern third of the Peninsula, especially in mountainous and coastal areas. In the Picos de Europa, they reached more than 150 kilometers,” summarizes this Monday Rubén del Campo, spokesperson for the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet). Furthermore, since Sunday afternoon there has been a very significant sea storm on the Galician coast, with waves that may exceed, again this Monday and until early Tuesday morning, eight to 10 meters. In the Cantabrian Sea, they could also reach eight meters.
This Monday, except in the Mediterranean area, rainfall will be abundant in Galicia, in the west of Castilla y León and around the Central system, with a snow level that will be around 800 at the end of the day. meters.
Starting on Tuesday, the wind will cease and the sea storm will be less intense, but the weather does not let up: on Wednesday a new storm will arrive, at the moment without a name, which will once again give rise to very strong winds and a new sea storm. The differential note is that this storm will arrive accompanied by cold northerly winds, which will cause heavy snowfall in mountain areas and, on Thursday, will also reach lower areas, since the snow level will be located at just 500 or 700 meters. Looking ahead to the weekend, the situation will tend to stabilize and there will not be too much rainfall, although it could rain in the Cantabrian Sea and the Mediterranean. As for temperatures, they will generally be somewhat higher, but night frosts are expected.
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🌀Storm Herminia will leave, until Tuesday, a significant storm with wind, bad sea conditions, rain and snow.
❄️Starting on Wednesday another storm could arrive with snow as the most adverse phenomenon.
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In more detail, on Tuesday there will still be a maritime storm, with waves of five to eight meters in Galicia and in the Cantabrian communities. In the east of the Peninsula, there will be intense gusts of wind that may exceed 70 or 80 kilometers per hour. Although the day will start with rainfall, this will decrease throughout the day, while the level will drop to around 800 meters in the north and around 1,000 to 1,200 meters in the south. In the mountains of the center of the Peninsula and the northern half, 10 centimeters of snow could accumulate.
Temperatures will be lower throughout the country, a decrease that will be notable – between 8° and 10° less than the previous day – in the east of the Peninsula. “In points of the Valencian Community and Murcia on Monday they will be around or exceed 25° and on Tuesday they will be below 18°,” Del Campo details. With these forecasts, they will remain under warning, which continues to be red due to bad seas in Galicia and orange only on the Cantabrian coast, the Galician Atlantic coast and Granada and Almería.
On Wednesday, the arrival of a new and deep storm “will once again give rise to very strong winds, especially from the northwest of the peninsula, where they could even be hurricanes in mountain and coastal areas, and a new maritime storm, with waves that could exceed six or eight meters on the northern coasts.” In the rest of the territory, the wind will also be noticeable but with somewhat less intensity.
It will rain one more day in a good part of the Peninsula, except in the Mediterranean area and it will not rain, or it will rain lightly, in the Balearic Islands. Precipitation will be abundant in the west of the Peninsula. The snow level will rise to around 1,200 or 1,400 meters, an altitude at which snowfall will be heavy. Temperatures will be similar to those of the previous day, with frost in mountain areas. in Andalusia, Asturias, Cantabria, Galicia and the Basque Country.
On Thursday, the day on which the warnings do not reach because they are issued three days in advance, there will be a change: the winds will begin to arrive from the north and will drag colder air to the latitudes of Spain. Precipitation is expected in large areas of the northern half of the Peninsula, also in mountain areas in the center and south, and in the Balearic Islands. The level will drop to only 500/700 meters in the west of the Peninsula and 1,000 in the east and in the Balearic archipelago and snowfall will be heavy in the mountains and surrounding areas and it will probably also snow in large areas of the Northern plateau.
The weekend, more stable
“The snow could mainly affect major communication routes in the north and center,” warns the expert. On the other hand, there will be strong gusts of wind in the northern half and temperatures will drop, with frost in mountainous areas, as well as in points of the northern plateau and parts of the center.
On the weekend “it is likely that the situation will tend towards greater stability, but rain could occur in the Cantabrian and Mediterranean communities of the Peninsula and in the Balearic Islands.” With clearer skies and calmer winds, nighttime temperatures will drop and frost will spread throughout much of the interior of the Peninsula, while maximum temperatures will rise and may exceed 18º on the shores of the Mediterranean.
And, meanwhile, the Canary Islands will be oblivious to the passage of these storms. Throughout the week, cloudy intervals will predominate in the archipelago in the north of the most mountainous islands, without ruling out some drizzle, but in the south of the islands it will be clearer. “Temperatures will rise on Monday and fall afterwards and the trade winds will blow intensely in exposed areas,” concludes the Aemet spokesperson.
