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Temperatures will be lower than usual for this time of year, according to the National Meteorological Agency (Aemet). The entity has activated this yellow alert in the provinces of Segovia, Soria, Burgos, Girona, Lleida, León, Lugo, Asturias, Cantabria and Huesca, which will be on alert due to the risk of snowfall.

According to the agency, dense layers of snow are expected for the morning around the main rivers of the southwest and light snowfall “in the main mountainous areas of the north of the country”. Concretely, it will affect several mountain ranges, such as the Iberian Cordillera of Burgos, the Cantabrian Cordillera of León and Asturias, the Central System of Segovia, the Iberian Cordillera of Soria, the Sierra of Ancares in Galicia and a large part of the Pyrenees, without excluding snow also in neighboring regions.

The snow level will be between 800 and 1,000 meters, but it will increase on the broadest day and may reach 1,000 to 1,200 meters in the north and 1,200 to 1,500 meters in other areas. While temperatures drop in the east, but increase in the west. “The increase in maximum temperatures in the western part of the peninsula and the decrease in the east, in the Balearic Islands and Melilla, will predominate,” affirms the entity.

Light winds from the west and northwest are also expected, affecting much of the peninsula and the Balearic Islands, and stronger in the Cantabrian region. Moderate to strong winds are also expected over the southern peninsula, the Gulf of Valencia and the Balearic Islands. In other areas of the coast and inland of the Levant, the wind will certainly also exhibit these characteristics. Lo even in the Canaries.

Rubén del Campo, spokesperson for AEMET, indicated that the first days of Christmas week will take place in a cold environment, especially during the day. “Temperatures will reach between 5 and 10 degrees this month and on Christmas Day, below normal values,” he said. At night and early in the morning, the situation will be different, even in the presence of cold weather: “The temperatures will be more suitable for this time of year.”

For Mars, the expert specifies that it will fall in the western and southern areas of the peninsula, as well as in points in the Mediterranean area, notably in the Balearic Islands and in the north of Catalonia. “The rest of the week will follow the rains in the Balearic archipelago and in the north of Catalonia, without forgetting the rains in the west of the peninsula and in the Cantabrian region,” he says.