Catalonia will be on alert this Friday for rainfall and storm

The temperatures will drop this Friday, July 21 in almost the entire country, on a day in which five autonomous communities will be on alert yellow (risk) due to storms, rain, heat, wind, waves and ‘rissaga’, according to the prediction of the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET). The northeastern regions, such as Catalonia and Aragon, They will be on alert for precipitation and storm.

Specifically, Huesca, Barcelona, ​​Girona and Lleida will be able to accumulate up to 20 liters per square meter In an hour. The rains are expected to be constant throughout the day. In addition, the precipitation will be accompanied by a storm. On the other hand, Gran Canaria, La Palma, La Gomera, El Hierro and Tenerife will be on yellow alert due to strong gusts of wind, which will reach 70 km/h, and which will facilitate swells due to force seven northeasterly winds.

Also, this day will be marked by heat in Murcia, which will be on yellow alert for high temperatures. the rregion can reach 39ºC. Also this Friday will be marked by the ‘rissaga’ in Menorca, which will cause fluctuations in sea level of almost one meter.

In Barcelona, ​​Girona and Lleida, up to 20 liters per square meter could accumulate in one hour

showers and storms

In general, the AEMET foresees that, in a good part of the country, little cloudy skies without precipitation. However, in the northwest of the Peninsula the approach of an Atlantic front is expected not very active that, in Galicia, the Cantabrian Sea and the surrounding areas, it will produce cloudy intervals and isolated precipitations on the coasts, which will subside in the afternoon but there will be showers in the interior, with the occasional storm.

Also, in the Pyrenees Early morning showers and thunderstorms are expected, which will continue in the afternoon and may be locally strong. In the rest of the northern half diurnal cloudiness will form, without ruling out occasional isolated showers and storms, more likely in the Iberian system. During the day there will be intervals of medium and high clouds in the southeast and the Balearic Islands, without ruling out some occasional weak precipitation in the Balearic Islands. In the Canary Islands, low clouds in the north of the islands, without ruling out some light drizzle in the higher relief.

lowering of the thermometers

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The temperatures will drop in most of the country, more markedly in the interior of the peninsula and notably the maximum in the northeast interior. The 34-36 degrees will still be exceeded in the Guadalquivir, southeast and in points of the Balearic Islands, under the Ebro and the coasts of Malaga and Almería. The minimums also have a predominance of decreasesalthough equatorial nights will still occur on the southern and southeastern Mediterranean coasts and at points in the Balearic Islands.

Lastly, the trade winds, strong or with strong intervals and with very strong gusts, will be protagonists in the Canary Islands. Intervals of strong wind, from the west in the Strait and Alborán and tramontana in the Ampurdán. In the rest, north wind in the Ebro valley, northeast in the Balearic Islands, western component on the Atlantic slope, northern component in Galicia at the end and breezes on the rest of the coasts.

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