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The snowstorm begins to subside as temperatures rise, the danger now is the thaw

2023-01-19T18:47:22.051Z


It will continue to rain in the northern third and it will do so over the previous snow, which is why flooding of the riverbeds may occur. In the rest of the country hardly any rainfall is expected, but the wind, cold and rough seas will continue


Penultimate day of the winter storm that has been hitting Spain since Monday and which will begin to subside from noon this Thursday, underlines Rubén del Campo, spokesman for the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet).

The cause of the improvement is the "entry from the west of a warm front, of a warmer air mass" than that of Tuesday and Wednesday, which was arctic, that is, from the Pole.

The maximum temperatures will rise, which will raise the snow level to 1,400 meters in the northern third ―Galicia, Cantabrian communities, northern Castilla y León, La Rioja, Navarra, northern Aragon and northern Catalonia―.

On Wednesday, the height in this area was only 300/400 meters, which left copious snowfall.

The problem is that it will continue to rain in that same third and it will do so on snow,

so the danger will be thaws and flooding of the riverbeds.

In the rest of the country hardly any rainfall is expected, but the wind, cold and rough seas will continue.

The deep squall

Fien

, which caused the worst of a storm unleashed by another deep squall,

Gérard

, is now history.

The cause of the wind, the rain and the snowfall this Thursday and Friday afternoon is a new storm,

Hannelore

, the eighth with a name in a season that has picked up a run, with the baptism of three storms in just six days .

She has named it Météo-France and, in the neighboring country, the most affected, it will leave extensive and copious snowfall.

Thus, this Thursday, between the last blows of

Fien

and with the relief of

Hannelore

, it has continued to snow at dawn and in the morning in the northern third, although the level has been "clearly raising the level" to be above 1,200 to 1,400 meters already in the afternoon, except in the Pyrenees, where it will continue to snow at any level.

In the Balearic Islands it will also continue to snow above 600 meters.

This rise in elevation will cause abundant rain to fall in areas where it has previously snowed, especially in the Cantabrian Sea, which will cause it to thaw and cause some riverbeds to go down with a lot of water.

Snowfall is also expected in the Central and Iberian systems.

In the rest of the country, continues Del Campo, the skies will be more open, with cloudy intervals and there will be hardly any precipitation.

Of course, it will be a very windy day again, especially on the Galician and Cantabrian coast, where there will be waves of five meters, but not eight meters as in previous days.

The Mediterranean sea will also be rough, with waves of two to three meters, not four, and the Cierzo will blow strongly in the Ebro. The maximum temperatures will rise in general and "remarkably" - up to 6°/8° more— in the northern third.

The minimums, on the other hand, will drop in the interior of the peninsula, with frosts in large areas of the Peninsula, which in the Pyrenees may be strong, above -10 °.

On the warning map, the communities with alerts for wind, rain, snow, cold, rough seas, avalanches and thaws are reduced from 15 to 13, after those affecting Murcia and Castilla-La Mancha were lifted.

These are Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, the Balearic Islands, Cantabria, Castilla y León, Catalonia, Galicia, Madrid, Navarra, the Basque Country, La Rioja, the Valencian Community, as well as Melilla.

The orange warnings for snow are maintained - the second level of a scale of three - in Navarra, Cantabria, the Basque Country and Aragon.

The warning for thaw, yellow level, the lowest, affects Cantabria, Burgos and Navarra.

Friday will be the last day of the episode, in which Del Campo points out that it will continue to rain a lot in the Cantabrian Sea and it will snow in the Pyrenees above 600 meters.

“Weak and scattered” rains are expected in other parts of the northern half and in mountainous areas of the Peninsula, with an elevation of around 1,400 meters, so the thaw will continue.

Temperatures will rise “notably” in almost the entire country, especially at night, with a rise of up to 8° compared to Thursday.

The frosts, therefore, will be limited to mountainous areas, but in the Pyrenees they will be strong again, with values ​​of -8° to -10° at high altitudes.

Source: elparis

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