A cold air mass coming from Iceland will hit almost all of Spain this weekend, and will leave rain and snow in various parts of the country, especially in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, where significant accumulations are expected. The precipitation caused by a storm will sweep almost the entire peninsula, as it will advance from west to east until Sunday, according to reports the time is, causing an atmosphere more typical of the winter season than the end of April.
This Friday, showers and storms will be widespread, and the cold environment will be aggravated by snowfall and strong gusts of wind in some communities. Galicia It will be the autonomy in which it discharges more waterbut this rainfall will also extend to areas of the Cantabrian Sea, the upper Ebro and from the north of Aragon and Catalonia.
Maximum temperatures will drop widely, especially in the southwest of the peninsula. The clouds will help keep the minimum temperatures from being as low as they should be, but the high gusts of wind will cause a thermal sensation of intense cold.
A cold Saturday and a Sunday spent in water
On Saturday one of the storm fronts will cross the peninsula towards the east, leaving showers during the morning in almost all of Spanish territory that will disappear throughout the afternoon. Furthermore, in Canary Islands Precipitation will be recorded in the western islands. However, although rainfall will be widespread throughout the day, They will not be intense.
The heaviest rains will be concentrated in Galicia, Andalusia, Madrid’s community, Castilla la Mancha, Cantabria and north of Aragon. Besides, Temperatures will continue to drop in areas of the northwest, center and southeast of the peninsula during Saturday. For this reason, it will begin to snow in the Cantabrian mountain range, in Pyrenees and at points in the Central system. In the northwest, snow levels will drop to 1,000 meters, but in the rest of the areas it will be above 1,500 meters.
Will leave the peninsula on Sundaybut the trough at altitude that follows, a phenomenon of warm and humid masses, will continue over the western half of the peninsula of Spain, maintaining the production of dense clouds and causing showers of varying intensity.
Starting next week, coinciding with the May long weekend, instability will continue in most of the territory, with precipitation in the northeast and the Balearic Islands. In the rest of the country, daytime cloudiness is expected, with showers in mountain areas, generally weak, and with greater accumulations in the Pyrenees area.
