The weather is expected to start to be generally stable in the eastern peninsula, according to forecasts by the State Meteorological Service (Emet), until a cold front arrives that will leave cloudy skies and rain in Galicia, which will continue during the week. The rain will be continuous in the west of the community, with storms from time to time. In the afternoon, it will extend weaker to the northwest of Castile and León and west of Asturias. The entity activated yellow warnings as of midday in La Coruña due to water accumulation and in Lugo due to winds. Minimum temperatures will drop.
The remnants of another front in the Mediterranean will leave rainwater on the coasts between Cabo de la Nao, Estérico, Melilla and the Balearic Islands, where it will be strong. In the Canary Islands, cloudy periods with weak rain are expected in the north of the more comfortable islands. There will also be morning clouds in the interior lows of the peninsula and afternoon clouds in eastern Castilla-La Mancha.
During this journey, minimum temperatures tend to fall throughout the entire Balearic Peninsula, with the exception of the southeastern peninsula, where changes will only occur. Peaks will rise on the Cantabrian slope, the Pyrenees, the high areas of the Iberian mountain range, the central system and the southern peninsula, according to the forecast. Bajaran in Castile and León and in the north-eastern peninsula, the Levante and the Tajo and Ebro valleys. Slight temperature changes are expected in the Canary Islands. Las Aemet expects severe weakness in the interior mountains and areas near the northern plateau, and moderate in the Pyrenees and high areas of the Iberian mountain range.
Two-sided winds will blow from the south and west inland, with northerly winds in the Gulf of Cadiz as well as in the Balearic Islands. There will also be moderate winds on the coasts of Gallegos and Cantabrico, with strong periods in northwest Galicia and west of Cantabrico and with the possibility of very strong rips inland. The weather is moderate on the coasts of the Balearic Sea and the northern Mediterranean. Throughout the week in the Canary Islands, winds blow strongly in the areas most exposed to clouds and clouds in the north of the islands, with rain falling, especially on all the mountainous islands.
In Martis, the front will advance from west to east and will end up in floodwaters in large areas of the peninsula, according to information from Emmett’s spokesman, Ruben del Campo. It will be heavy in Galicia, especially in the west of the community, where the wind will also blow strongly and there will be “an important sea storm, with waves that will exceed 5 meters high.” Del Campo explains that snow will fall at an altitude of 1,000 meters north of the region, “and for this reason some communications lines may be affected and it is advised to check the condition of the roads.” Temperatures will rise at night and temperatures will fall during the day, especially throughout the eastern peninsula. “Over a large part of the northern plateau as well as the southern plateau, temperatures will not reach 10 degrees,” according to the spokesperson, “while on the Mediterranean coast, over the entire Valencian Community, the Balearic Islands, the region of Murcia and Andalusia, the maximums will be around 18 degrees.”
Children will begin to rain in the center and south of the peninsula, which will move east to reach the Balearic Islands. In Melilla they can be strong locally. “Along the journey it will stop,” del Campo said, “until it arrives again in front of Galicia, with continuous rain in the west in the afternoon.” The snow level in the north is expected to reach about 800 metres. A third day is expected with snowfall inland and fairly low temperatures, with frost in the north, center and east of the peninsula, which will be fierce in the Pyrenees. New youth will emerge from the ice and spread across large areas, according to expectations.
Del Campo warns that in the days before the end of the year, “prognostic uncertainty increases significantly.” The spokesman explains that they can continue to reach fronts on the peninsula where rivers flow in the north and west, but explains: “We cannot rule out that it will reach other areas of the region and it is still difficult to determine.” It states that temperatures will rise, “and therefore there will also be a level of snow that will only fall in high mountainous areas.” The temperature is expected in coastal areas: “In Cantabrico it will be around 20 degrees and in the Mediterranean it will be 22 degrees.”
Starting with the climatological winter, which runs between December 1 and February 28, Emmett sees “a 60% to 70% chance that the weather will be warmer than normal across Spain.” Furthermore, he stated that “it is not clear what it will be like during the rains in most parts of the country”, although in the southwest of the peninsula “there is a 40% greater probability that the winter will be drier than usual”.