In the penultimate week of the year we will not be able to do without a good coat or umbrella. The RainHe cold and the Snow will be the three main protagonists. The spokesman for the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet), Rubén del Campo, already announced in a statement that “the first week of the Christmas holidays will pass.” cold environment“Temperatures will be “lower than normal for the time of year,” particularly during the day. In fact, high temperatures are expected on Christmas Day. between 5 and 10 degrees below of normal values. However, at night and early morning temperatures, although there is frost, are more typical of this time of year.
This Tuesday, areas in the north and center of the peninsula will experience frost at dusk, although temperatures will rise both at night and during the day. Nevertheless, the atmosphere will be cold and maximum temperatures will not reach ten degrees in much of the interior of the peninsula. It will rain in Galicia and the Cantabrian Sea, but also in the south of Castile and León, Extremadura and a large part of Andalusia. It will snow in the mountains 1,200 meters, with levels increasing throughout the day. The Aemet has activated warnings for snowfall in the north Castile and Leonand the Cazorla and Segura region in Jaen. In both cases, snow accumulations up to 5 centimeters thick are expected from 1,200 meters onwards.
On Wednesday the 24th, Christmas Eve, the time will come a rainy day in a good part of the country. Here too, the day begins with frost in the interior of the peninsula, while daytime temperatures continue to rise. “The atmosphere will be cold, but not as much as in the past few days“says del Campo, adding that the sky will be clearer in the east and south of the peninsula and cloudier in the north, with persistent rain in the Cantabrian Sea. It will rain in the north of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, in the south of Andalusia, as well as in Ceuta and Melilla.
On Thursday, December 25th, Christmas Day, a new cold air mass to the peninsula, which will be accompanied by a drop in temperature that will be “stronger” in the northern half and the Mediterranean. Apart from the fact that we will wake up to frost in much of the interior of the peninsula, daytime temperatures in this area, in the interior of the peninsula, will remain well below ten degrees, and in cities on the northern plateau even below five degrees.
The maximum values will be again between 5 and 10 degrees below normal in the northern half of the country. Rainfall is also expected in the municipalities on the Cantabrian Sea, although it will be less persistent than in recent days. And it is also possible that it will rain in the north of Catalonia and also in the Balearic Islands. “There is uncertainty in this regard, but it could rain in the rest of the Mediterranean, without excluding that this precipitation could reach the eastern interior of the peninsula, with snow, especially in mountainous areas.”
Canary Islands, where there will be plenty of cloudiness in the north of the islands over the next few days, with more likely and abundant rain expected in the north of the more mountainous islands. Temperatures will not experience any major changes and values will be mild. The minimum values are set between 15 and 17 degrees and maximum temperatures between 20 and 22 degrees in the coastal areas of the archipelago.
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