In the suitcase of Holy Week, it will be necessary to put a little of everything.
During the holidays, the first in two years without the restrictions and cancellations imposed by the covid, “the variable weather, typical of spring, will predominate, with changes from rainy to sunny and fluctuations in temperatures throughout the days,” summarizes Rubén del Campo, spokesperson for the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet).
Thus, Spain will go from a Palm Sunday with a "stable atmosphere and mild temperatures" to a rainy Monday and Tuesday.
The remains of this instability will reach Wednesday or even Thursday, although from this day on, the skies will give "rising temperatures, a temperate environment and stable weather" to the processions in most of the country, having said all this, warns Del Countryside,
Evolution of the surface situation for the next 72 hours, https://t.co/XZgPFkyP2Q pic.twitter.com/D66H824ifZ
– AEMET (@AEMET_Esp) April 7, 2022
This weekend, when the first great exodus will take place on the roads - the DGT expects 3.7 million journeys between three in the afternoon this Friday and twelve at night next Sunday -, Aemet expects, "a broad features, stable weather and with typical temperatures for the time”, after the snowfalls first in the northeast and then in the southeast and the generalized polar cold due to the alliance between successive storms and the powerful mass of arctic air that invaded the Peninsula last Thursday.
And it is roughly because there is an exception: the
Diego
deep storm , baptized on Wednesday by Météo-France "due to the possible great impact of its winds on the Atlantic coast of this country."
In Spain, its effects will be limited to the peninsular northwest, where a front associated with
Diego
will leave "wind, rain and waves in Galicia and Cantabrian communities" in full operation.
“Precipitation will be abundant on Friday in western Galicia, snow will appear in the extreme north above 1,400 meters, there will be intense gusts of wind of up to 90 kilometers per hour in coastal and mountain areas of Galicia and Cantabrian and temporary communities. maritime in the Bay of Biscay until Saturday, with waves of four to five meters”, details Del Campo.
Aemet has activated warnings, all of them yellow - the lowest level on a scale of three - for wind and maritime storm in Asturias, Cantabria, Galicia and the Basque Country on Friday and in Catalonia and the Basque Country on Saturday due to rough seas.
In the rest of the country, a clear outlook, with "slightly cloudy skies, but no rain", while temperatures will drop slightly in the north.
Diego
will be seen and not seen.
He "he will move very quickly from the Atlantic to the interior of the European continent and will disappear from the maps on Sunday, so he will no longer have any influence on the weather in Spain" as of Saturday.
This day will be "calm" in the bulk of the country, with intervals of decorative clouds in the sky, which will not leave rain, although in Galicia, Asturias, Castilla y León and the surroundings of the Iberian system, scattered and weak precipitation may still be recorded. .
Temperatures will rise in the west and south of the peninsula, but will drop in the Cantabrian, northeast and Balearic Islands.
We already have a new storm in the “rosco”: The #BorrascaEvelyn, named by our Portuguese colleagues from @ipma_pt, since it will leave very strong winds in the Azores.
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– AEMET (@AEMET_Esp) April 7, 2022
On Palm Sunday, "stable weather for the most part" is expected, although at the end of the day a new front ―associated with another storm, this one called
Evelyn
by the Portuguese meteorological service because it will affect the Azores first― “another front will begin to penetrate the west of the Peninsula”, which will already leave the first rains in the west of Galicia.
It is not ruled out that it will also rain, although not much, at points in Catalonia and the Valencian Community.
The southerly component winds, which will arrive warm and will blow strongly in the Strait and in Alborán, will cause temperatures to rise "quite remarkably".
The ascent may be up to eight degrees in the interior of the peninsula or even 10 or more in points of the Bay of Biscay.
Thus, from the “extraordinary cold” for April with which the week began, Sunday will go to 27º or 28º in Seville and Córdoba, 26º in Ourense, 25º in Bilbao, Oviedo, Santander and Badajoz and 22º in Valladolid, Madrid and Saragossa.
The atmosphere will be cooler in the east,
On Holy Monday, the "quite active" front that had appeared the day before in Galicia will begin to sweep the Peninsula to the east.
Its passage will cause a marked drop in temperatures - up to 8 ° - in the entire west of the Peninsula, but these will rise in the east of the peninsula and the Balearic Islands.
Thus, they will continue to hover around 25° in the eastern Cantabrian Sea and more than 20° in the central area and large areas of the eastern half, but in Salamanca and León they will remain at 15°.
The front will also irrigate the Peninsula with rains "practically widespread, which will be more abundant when further west" and will not reach the Mediterranean.
In the west of Galicia, more than 30 liters per square meter can be collected, more than 20 in the north of Extremadura and between 5 and 10 in the rest of this community, Castilla y León, Madrid and western Andalusia.
On Holy Tuesday the front will continue to cross the Peninsula, so the rains will continue to affect a good part of the country and will already reach the Mediterranean, with greater probability in the north of the Valencian Community and Catalonia, without ruling out that some water reaches Balearics.
It will rain more "weakly and scattered" in general, but more abundantly in Galicia, the Pyrenees and eastern Andalusia.
“Temperatures will continue to drop, sharply in the central area and in the eastern half,” details the Aemet spokesman, who speaks of falls of up to 10º in Castilla-La Mancha and eastern Andalusia.
The front will give its last gasps on Holy Wednesday, perhaps still on Thursday, with scattered and residual rainfall in Galicia, Cantabrian communities, the Pyrenees, the peninsular Mediterranean area or even in the Balearic Islands.
Where the rains will be least likely is in Extremadura and the western part of Andalusia.
Starting on Holy Thursday, although uncertainty increases because there are still many days left, anticyclonic weather will prevail.
On Holy Friday and Saturday "everything points" to the predominance of a stable environment in most of the country, although Aemet does not rule out some weak rainfall in the extreme north and in the Balearic Islands.
This stability, with the rains restricted to isolated points in the extreme north, will continue through the weekend.
In the Canary Islands, the weekend will be marked by slightly cloudy skies, without rain and with rising temperatures, although on Sunday it may be cloudier in the north of the islands with greater relief and with rain in the north of these, especially in The Palm.
Next week the trade wind regime will continue, with rains in the north of the islands with greater relief, slightly cloudy skies in the rest of the archipelago and more heat from Wednesday.