Summer which arrives this Tuesday at 11:14 official time and will last 93 days and 16 hours -until September 23-, starts with a drop in temperatures throughout the country, after the most intense, extensive and early heat wave in 20 years and that for more than a week has affected almost the entire peninsula.
The The first week of summer will leave a very different panorama with “a cooler environment” with rains and storms especially in the north, Rubén del Campo, spokesman for the Meteorology Agency (Aemet), has advanced to stress that, in general, “it will not be excessively hot” and the values will be between 5 and 10 degrees below than normal.
During the first days of this week, the presence of low pressures, together with cooler air from the Atlantic, will favor lower values than usual in the western half, although Del Campo has highlighted that This Monday and Tuesday, the heat will still persist in the Eastern Cantabrian, northeast, Mediterranean and in the Balearic Islands.
On the contrary, in Galicia and Cantabrian as well as in other areas of the peninsular northwest and central system stormy showers are forecast, locally strong, and accompanied by hail and intense gusts of wind, especially in the surroundings of the Pyrenean mountain range and the Iberian system.
By provincial capitals, this Monday the coolest values will be felt in Lugo and Pontevedra where the thermometers will barely exceed 17-18 degrees, followed by A Coruña and Oviedo, with a maximum of 19 degrees, Santander and León with 21 degrees, Ávila with 22 degrees, Zamora and Donosti with 23 degrees and Bilbao, Cáceres, Cádiz, Palencia will reach maximums between 24 and 25 degrees.
Wednesday will be a day of clouds and rains in Galicia, Cantabrian Sea and northwest of Castilla y León and weaker to the west of Extremadura and Andalusia, and in the rest of the peninsula clearer skies and lower temperatures in the central area of the country, the eastern half and the Balearic Islands.
This day, in the Ebro Valley, interior of the Valencian Community and the region of Murcia and in points of the province of Malaga and Mallorca, it will exceed 32 degrees, but in general in the rest of the country the maximum will be between 20 and 30 degrees and below 20 degrees even in the Cantabrian Communities and Galicia.
In the downtown area, daytime temperatures will also drop and Madrid and Toledo will register 25 degrees respectivelyDel Campo has detailed.
On Thursday the clouds and rains will continue in the north, with storms in the Pyrenees that could affect other areas of the northern half of the peninsula and the center in a weaker way, and there could be storms again in the Balearic Islands with showers accompanied by mud; In the southern half, slightly cloudy skies will predominate with somewhat higher values, except in the east and in the Balearic Islands, where they will drop somewhat.
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from the weekend it is possible that the situation of rains and showers in the north will continueespecially on Friday, when they could again affect other areas of the northern half, but with a tendency to subside during Saturday and Sunday, days when in principle the skies will be clearer and temperatures will clearly rise.
At this point, the Aemet spokesman has pointed out the existence of uncertainty regarding weather forecasts and some scenarios delay the notable rise in temperatures at the beginning of the following week.