The current period of low rainfall will end between this Friday and Saturday, when the passage of a front through the Peninsula will leave showers in large areas of the country, prior to a few days in which the heat will once again dominate due to the arrival of a “very warm” air mass that will leave midsummer temperatures.
The rainfall over the weekend will not be “neither abundant nor persistent”, but it will leave rain in areas where it has not rained for more than a month, such as Madrid, where not a drop has fallen since March 8, has advanced Rubén Del Campo, Aemet spokesman.
The passage of the Atlantic front will also favor a “notable but temporary drop in temperatures”, prior to a few days in which the heat will dominate due to the arrival of a very warm air mass with very high temperatures for the time: “Up to 30 degrees in the north and even 33-34 degrees in the south of the peninsula”.
At this point, Del Campo explained that during the first 16 days of April, barely 5 liters per square meter have accumulated in Spain as a whole, an “extraordinarily low” figure for that time and that represents only 15% of the total. rain that usually falls in our country between April 1 and 16.
In April as a whole, the normal average rainfall is 63.5 liters per square meter, so with great probability, the spokesman specified, April will not reach that average and will end up being the driest in the historical series (1961 ).
This Wednesday the highlight will be the Levante storm in the Strait area with some isolated showers in points in the south of Andalusia and temperatures that will rise, especially in the northern half, while tomorrow will be a stable day, although with some showers in Pyrenees and in the northeast of the peninsula.
On Thursday temperatures will rise, especially in the eastern third of the peninsula, and temperatures will exceed 25 degrees in large areas of the territory, and even in the interior of the Valencian Community and in the Guadalquivir Valley, up to 30 degrees will be recorded.
That day, therefore, will be clearly warmer than normal for this time, with daytime values ??between 5 and 10 degrees above normal. At night the values ??will be more typical of April, so there will be a notable temperature difference between dawn and noon.
As of Friday, “the arrival of the cold front will begin to be noticed” with showers in Galicia and Asturias. In the rest of the Peninsula, the evolution clouds will grow from midday to give rise to showers accompanied by storms, more likely in the northeast.
Saturday is the day on which the front will cross the Peninsula with rain and showers in large areas of the territory, although, in general, “it will not be very abundant rainfall,” the Aemet spokesman observed.
It is unlikely that 10 liters per square meter of rain will be exceeded, except in points in Galicia and around the Pyrenees, where rainfall will be somewhat more abundant. In the Pyrenees, northern Navarra, Aragon and Catalonia, these rains could be accompanied by storms.
In addition, that day a notable drop in temperatures is expected, which in the north and east of the peninsula could be 6-8 degrees compared to the day before and it will be a day with an atmosphere more typical of April, not as warm as the previous days , and only 25 degrees will be exceeded in the Guadalquivir.
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