Christmas week is coming with freezing temperatures. A polar air mass will enter Spain and will cause thermometers and snow levels to drop by up to 500 meters.
As indicated on the portal Weatherizedthis Sunday snow level It will descend to 700-800 meters in the northwest, 1,300-1,500 m in the southeast and reach around 1,000 meters in the rest.
Snowfall is not excluded at levels below 500-700 meters to the north or northwest, with the possibility of snow accumulations between five and ten centimeters in the next 24 hours.
During the day, the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) decreed the yellow warning of snow in the mountains of the Central System, the Cantabrian Mountains, the Pyrenees, the Serranía de Cuenca and the Sierra Nevada, where heavy snowfall is expected with the possibility of extending to the surrounding areas, especially in sectors of the northern plateau.
In addition, morning fog banks are expected, particularly in mountainous areas and depressions in the northeast. Likewise, Aemet estimates that there will be frosts or temperatures close to 0 ºC in up to 14 provinces (Ávila, Burgos, Albacete, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Guadalajara, León, Palencia, Navarra, Salamanca, Segovia, Soria, Teruel and Zamora).
Likewise, this same yellow alert is extended due to heavy rains in the Balearic Islands and on the coast of Girona. The state agency also predicts that the sky will be cloudy or overcast, with widespread rains on the coasts of Galicia, in the middle of the Pyrenees during the afternoon, in the area of the Alboran Sea and on the southern half of the Atlantic slope. In Andalusia, precipitation could be strong and persistentespecially in the western and southern regions.
In Canary Islandsthe weather will also be unstable on Sunday and cloudy periods are expected, with rain on the islands further north, which could also appear occasionally on the rest of the archipelago.
As for temperatures, minimum temperatures will drop in most of the peninsula, except in the far west, where practically no change is expected. The drop could be notable in the northern half, with negative temperatures appearing in many places at the end of the day. In the Canary Islands, temperatures will remain without major variations.
The wind will blow from the west and southwest in the peninsula and the Balearic Islands, with moderate intensity in the coastal areas, reaching strong intervals and very strong gusts on the coasts of the southern peninsula, the Balearic Islands and the entire coast of Galicia, with orange warnings for waves of up to six meters. Inside the wind will be light, while in the Canary Islands The moderate trade winds will continue to blow.
Start of winter
Winter officially begins in the northern hemisphere this Sunday at 4:03 p.m.according to calculations by the National Astronomical Observatory, a season that will last 88 days and 23 hours, and will end on March 20, 2026 with the start of spring.
Its start will be completely wintry, leaving a Christmas with rain, snowfall and lower temperatures. For example, in Madrid, where storms are expected, it is predicted that this Sunday the maximum temperatures will only reach 8 degrees; in León, the capital, the 5 degrees, as in Burgos; in Teruel on the 7th; and in Zamora there are 6, just like in Lugo.
THE General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) It calls for special caution when driving and recommends planning your route, checking the weather forecast and finding out about road conditions.
Thermometers will continue to drop across most of the country throughout the week; From December 22 to 28, cold air masses will arrive which will cause a decrease.
The environment will be completely wintry, with values below the normal average for this period. Rain is also likely over large areas of the territory, especially in the eastern third of the peninsula and the Balearic Islands, with snowfall not only in the mountains but also in low-lying areas.
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