The AEMET warns of the danger that will occur in the coming days

06/14/2023 at 10:30 a.m.

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Tropical nights and temperatures that do not stop rising

Thermometers will rise again anticipating summer temperatures

The DANA visit in Spain It is leaving us a beginning of the week with milder but also more unstable temperatures because the climatic trend does not stop changing. As of Wednesday, the thermometers will rise again causing This event worries experts.

Until temperatures of 40ºC In the southwest, the thermometers of the peninsula will mark midsummer temperatures before the season even begins. This extreme heat would be marked by the disappearance of the DANA, once a ridge moves away it will be established over Spain.

The ridges are stable areas in height that are associated with dry, warm and non-variable weather. They are found in the middle and upper layers of the atmosphere in general, they are associated with clear weather and low humidity. in the ridges the pressure is greater than that of the surroundings at the same level something that will cause a thermal rise that will last until the weekend and on Saturday the thermometers will exceed the limits.

How long will the temperatures rise this week?

Until Saturday 17 temperatures are expected to continue rising, the maximums may reach 40ºC in many points of the peninsular southwest, the maximums will rise and may reach 40ºC and even exceed them in some points of the peninsular southwest. Sunday this heat spike it will begin to decrease as the ridge moves eastward.

Between Sunday and on Tuesday of next week the temperatures could drop, but it would be a temporary decrease caused by a trough that would bring climatic instability again to later receive the ridge again and wait for a new peak in temperatures.

The areas most affected by extreme heat

The main ones affected by the high temperatures are in the southwest of the peninsula. For Córdoba, it is foreseen temperatures of 40ºC on the Saturday day. Extremadura, Castilla-La Mancha, the Ebro valley or the interior of Andalusia will start at 35ºC and may exceed them.

In it the peninsular southwest will reach the highest maximum, especially in the Guadalquivir valley: up to 39ºC expected in Córdoba on Saturday. In other areas of the southwest, such as Extremadura, western Castilla-La Mancha, inland Andalusia or in the Ebro Valley could also reach or even exceed 35ºC.

below 30ºC there would only be the regions of the peninsular northwest and the Canary Islands, with about 22ºC in A Coruña or 24ºC in Santander.

Tropical lows bringing warm nights

The heat will creep into the night, we will not only be hot in the afternoon, the minimum will also rise at dawn. This same Tuesday the minimums did not drop below 22ºC in Barcelona or Malaga. As of Friday, these will be the average temperatures for the nights of the peninsula.

The most affected will be most of Andalusia, southern Extremadura and Castilla-la Mancharegions of the peninsular Mediterranean, in both archipelagos and locally in the Bay of Biscay may not drop below 20ºC throughout the weekend. On Saturday the expected minimum in Seville is 22ºC.

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