If it weren’t for the fact that climate change is making us stop raising our eyebrows at many of the Meteorological phenomena that are severely affecting us in recent times, anyone would say, seeing how crowded these days are the Barcelona beachesthat we do not meet on a first Sunday in February.
Uninterrupted traffic on the promenade where walkers, joggers, skaters and the occasional reveler come together at discount hours, and the beach divided into three large areas so that both those who dare to take a dip and those who come to do the picnic and those who are going to sleep it off can coexist without ‘neighbourhood’ problems with those who hit volleyball hard -en masse at this time- and those who enjoy vermouth and food in one of the multiple beach bars that make Sunday refreshment.
A picture more worthy of a spring photo than of a winter to use. And it is that this weekend peak temperatures have been reached of an anticyclonic episode that throughout almost the entire week has provided us with sunny skies and mild temperatures and, even, in the central hours of the day, to a point hot.
Although already this Sunday the maximums have been somewhat slowed down compared to the records of Saturday -on that day the station that the Meteorological Service of Catalonia has in Zona Universitaria raised the mercury up to 22.1ºC-, the thermometer has come to climb to a not inconsiderable 18 ºC on a Sunday with totally clear skies and prevailing sun.
An ideal cocktail for Barcelonans take to the streets and, more specifically, the first line of the coast that stretches from the Vela hotel – on Sant Sebastià beach- to the Fòrum -Llevant beach-.
Without any doubt, the people of Barcelona have wanted to soak up these last moments of meteorological bonanza with the conviction, reaffirmed in the latest weather forecasts, that facing Monday, and for a good number of days, you will have to leave the towel at home and take your coat and umbrella.
Cold and rain
And it is that a sudden change of time will affect us, literally, from one day to the next. Starting tonight and through the first half of Monday, there will be a polar cold air mass which will cause a very pronounced thermal decrease, leaving the maximum with difficulties to scratch 10 ºC (let’s remember: on Saturday we were above 20 ºC in all parts of Barcelona, including the Fabra observatory).
And also with high probability of rain in the central hours of the day -which, unfortunately, will not be large and prolonged enough to reverse the hydrological crisis that has been affecting the territory for almost a year-, both this coming Monday and Tuesday.
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gray overcast sky during these immediate days that will clear up as the week progresses with a slight increase in temperature in the daytime hours that, even so, will be very far from what we have experienced these past days -they will move between 13 and 14ºC- .
We will have to be content with days where we will have to move to that side of the sidewalk that dodges the icy shadows and finds the soft warmth of the shy rays of the sun, and accept that the nights will be pure winter. In short, what amounts to any February.