Where is it snowing in Barcelona and Catalonia?

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The forecasts have come true and snow has appeared at low levels (practically at sea level) in numerous coastal and pre-coastal regions of Catalonia. Some experts say that we are facing the most important episode of widespread snow outside of mountain areas in the last 5-10 years.

In the early morning of this Monday, February 27, the snow has reached the Metropolitan Area of ​​Barcelona. He Meteorological Service of Catalonia has reported that neighborhoods of Barcelona and L’Hospitalet de Llobregat granulated snow falls and in the Fabra Observatory it is also rushing.

In areas of the Vallesas Terrassathe snow has curdled:

And the same has happened in various areas of the Baix Llobregat:

Well advanced on Monday morning, snow made an appearance in neighborhoods of the urban fabric of Barcelona. Until then, she had unloaded hard on Collserola and Tibidabo:

Sunday had already begun with the first precipitation in the form of snow with an elevation of about 700 meters in the montsenyLes Guilleries, the mountains of Pradeshe Els Ports National Parkand the easternmost Pyrenees and Pre-Pyrenees and as of mid-afternoon it has returned to precipitate in Montseny and snow has arrived in towns in the south of Girona such as lagostera or from Maresme as canet de maralso begun to affect the entire pre-coastal sector and central coast.

The certainty: severe cold

Since last Wednesday a Change of trendgradually going from a situation of absolute serenity in the sky and thermometers with records that easily exceeded 20 ºC on the coast in the central hours of the day, to an increase in cloudiness, a first round of rainfall, and a gradual decrease in temperature. mercury.

But it will be in the last throes of this coming Sunday and especially during the first half of Monday when we can affirm without false excess of drama that the thermometers will plummet with records of up to 8 degrees below what it would touch around these dates.

According to the AEMET, between Sunday and Monday the maximum will hardly reach 10 ºC, with frost widespread in the interior, locally strong in the Pyrenees and more sporadic and weak on the coast.

After hit rock bottom at noon on that same Mondayit will start a slow and progressive recovery of temperatures that will last throughout the week, but always with below-average records for this time of year. Until the following week the thermometers will not be in line with what they would play at the beginning of March.

Already during Sunday morning the snowfalls in the pre-coastal sector have occurred with the snow level around 700 meters, and will begin to spread at the last minute to areas of the central coast and pre-coast.

He Tuesday, in parallel with the gradual increase in temperatures, the snow level would rise from 200 meters to 600-700 meters during the day, so a large part of Catalonia would still not be safe from receiving snow. Even so, as the week goes by, the probability of snow at medium and low levels, without being ruled out given the still icy environment that we will maintain in the following days, will go down.

Related news

Faced with this episode of possible snowfall, as indicated by the Meteorological Service of Catalonia (SMC) has launched a warning for risk of snow at low levelsmainly for the coastal and central pre-coastal regions and which will fully affect the entire Barcelona Metropolitan Area from 7:00 p.m. on Sunday to noon on Monday.

In parallel, Civil Protection has activated the special emergency plan for snowfall (NEUCAT) before the episode that occurs during the change of week. In that span of time the snow level can go down to sea level and with the possibility of accumulating between 2 and 5 centimeters thick above 400 meters.



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