How long will the polar cold last in Spain?

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The cold and snow are felt on the first Sunday of April in the Palencia town of Aguilar de Campo. (EFE)

This weekend the temperatures have plummeted, marking figures in the unusual thermometers for the current spring season, caused by the Ciril storm and an Atlantic front. Although at the end of last week there was some uncertainty regarding how the weather would evolve throughout this week, the peninsula has not yet said goodbye to winter weather, since a new atlantic storm in the vicinity of Gulf of Cadiz It will leave cloudy or covered skies, with heavy rainfall in the southern half of the peninsula and the Balearic Islands. In addition, unusually low temperatures will also be recorded in these areas in the east of the Peninsula, according to the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet).

The Aemet has put on notice for snowfall a Andalusia, Castilla-La Mancha and Region of Murcia, by rains to the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla, and by wind and rough seas to Andalusia, the Balearic Islands, Galicia, the Region of Murcia, the Valencian Community, Ceuta and Melilla. Rainfall will be more likely and intense in the south, and may be accompanied by storms in the southern half of Andalusia. Besides, the Snow cover it will be around 700/900 meters in the mountains of the southeast and around 1,000/1,400 in Sierra Nevada

Meanwhile, in the middle peninsular north, the area most affected by the Atlantic front and the snowfall last weekend, the sky will be slightly cloudy or with intervals and, in Canary Islands, cloudy sky in the north of the islands, without ruling out an isolated shower in the mountainous islands. On the other hand, temperatures daytime they will rise in the northern half of the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, and will descend in areas of the southwest and the Canary Islands. The minimums will ascend and will be registered widespread frost in the interior of the northern half and areas of the southeast, which will be more intense in mountainous environments and strong in the Pyrenees and the Cantabrian Mountains.

The wind it will blow from Levante strong in the Strait and Alborán and intervals of strong northeasterly wind on the southeast coast of the peninsula and the Balearic Islands, with a general tendency to subside; northwesterly wind in Ampurdán, and northeasterly in Galicia; north component wind in the Canary Islands; in the rest, light wind, with a predominance of wind from the east component.

Temperatures stabilize on Thursday

It is expected that at the end of the week, specifically from Thursday, the temperatures will rise across the board which, above all, will be more pronounced in the maximum in a large part of the southern interior center of the peninsula and the minimum in the northern half of the peninsula. Frosts are expected in areas of the northern plateau and mountains of the southeast and will be more intense in the Pyrenees, but weaker in general.

In addition, the AEMET forecasts that on Thursday the weather will stabilize with weak rains, mainly in Galicia and on Friday a front will enter from the northwest that will leave rains in the northeastern third of the Peninsula and the Pyrenees. Looking ahead to the weekend, scattered rainfall is expected throughout the Peninsula, with the exception of Levante, and somewhat more intense rains in Galicia on the Cantabrian coast. Temperatures will rise across the board from Wednesday. although on Friday they will drop somewhat temporarily.