Fien complicate the situation from Tuesday until Saturday
MADRID / SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, 16 (EUROPA PRESS)
The Grard storm, the seventh of the season, is ahead of the Fien storm and will affect Spain this Monday with wind, waves, snowfall and rain, phenomena that will put some 40 provinces across the country at risk, according to the Agency’s forecast. State Meteorology.
Specifically, this Monday the wind will put A Corua and Lugo at significant risk (orange), and Teruel, Zaragoza, Asturias, Cantabria, the Balearic Islands, Albacete, Cuenca, Guadalajara, Barcelona, Tarragona, Ourense, Pontevedra at risk (yellow). , Madrid, Murcia, Guipzcoa, Vizcaya, La Rioja, Alicante, Castellón, Valencia, Almería, Granada, Málaga, Burgos, Vila, León, Zamora, Soria, Valladolid, Segovia, Zamora and Palencia, as well as Melilla.
In addition, coastal phenomena will put Cantabria, Asturias, Girona, A Corua, Lugo, Pontevedra, Guipzcoa, Vizcaya, Almeria and Granada at significant risk. The Balearic Islands, Barcelona, Tarragona, Alicante, Castelln, Valencia and Malaga, as well as the autonomous city of Melilla, will also be at risk from waves, but at a lower level.
Also this Monday the snow will affect different areas, such as Huesca, which will be at significant risk, as will Navarra, while Zaragoza, Burgos, León, Palencia, Soria, Zamora, Barcelona, Girona, Lleida and La Rioja will be on lower level alert. .
The rain will also put Asturias, León, Pontevedra, Navarra, Lava, Guipzcoa and Vizcaya at risk, while Cantabria will be at significant risk due to the same phenomenon.
All these alerts coincide with the entry of the Grard storm, which has anticipated the Fien storm and will be felt in Spain this Monday, in which, in general, overcast skies are expected, as will be the case in the northern half of the peninsula. , with persistent and widespread rainfall in Galicia, the Cantabrian area and the central and western Pyrenees, which could be locally heavy in the Cantabrian coastal areas and surroundings.
The precipitations will be less likely the further south, although in the surroundings of the Central and Ibrico systems they may have some persistence, Aemet has detailed.
In addition, in the southern half of the Peninsula, intervals of medium and high clouds are expected at first, increasing throughout the day to cloudy or overcast and without ruling out some weak and occasional precipitation in mountainous areas. In the Balearic Islands and points of the central Catalan coast, an occasional shower is not ruled out and in the Canary Islands cloudy skies and precipitation are expected in the north of the islands with greater relief, and with cloudy intervals in general in the rest.
On the other hand, the snow levels will be located in the northwest of the peninsula at 1,200/1,500 meters, rising to 1,800/2,000 meters. In the rest of the northern half it will be at 700/900 meters, rising to 1,300/1,500 in the Pyrenees — where 30 centimeters can be accumulated at these heights in the western Pyrenees — and 1,600/1,800 meters in the rest.
Regarding temperatures, the daytime temperatures will not change or will rise in the west and northwest of the peninsula, while they will drop locally notably in the southeastern third, the Balearic Islands and the Pyrenees surroundings. Lows will increase in the northwest and decrease in the east and southeast. In addition, few changes or a slight decrease are expected in the Canary Islands, while weak frosts are forecast in the north and east of the peninsula, more intense in the Pyrenees.
In addition, the wind will be from the west in the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, strong in the northern and eastern thirds of the Peninsula, and with very strong gusts in mountain areas, as well as in the northern plateau, the Balearic Islands and the surroundings of Alborn. Likewise, very strong intervals are forecast in the north of Galicia and trade winds in the Canary Islands.
Specifically, the strong winds will give rise to a maritime storm throughout the day in the Cantabrian area, with winds that can occasionally exceed 80 km/h and waves of between six and eight meters.
STORM MOST ADVERSE WITH FIEN
After the passage of Grard, the most adverse part of the winter storm will correspond to the Fien storm, the sixth of the season, which will form in the early hours of Tuesday and will be accompanied by snowfall at low levels in the center and northern half, where they could even see flakes at sea level.
According to a special notice from the AEMET, as of this Monday the interaction of the powerful Atlantic anticyclone centered to the west of the Azores, with the deepening of the Fien storm, to the south of the British Isles, will give rise to the intensification of the Atlantic flow from the west and northwest, making it stronger, damp and cold.
This meteorological situation will cause a storm of wind and sea in the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, and of snow and rain in the northern half of the peninsula, which will last for a good part of the week.
Thus, on Tuesday, January 17, the irruption through the northwest of the peninsula of an air mass of maritime-polar origin, very cold, is expected, which will spread in subsequent days to the rest of the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, giving rise to intense winds. from the northwest, and rainfall that will tend to be generalized, and that together with a pronounced thermal drop, will take the form of snow at levels that can drop below 500 meters with the possible irruption of a mass of arctic origin along Wednesday and Thursday.
Likewise, during Tuesday and Wednesday, precipitation is expected to occur almost universally in the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, being less likely in the peninsular Mediterranean area. In addition, a drop in snow levels on Tuesday will mean that said precipitations will be in the form of snow at low levels, without being discarded at sea level in the Cantabrian area on Wednesday. During these days the very strong gusts of wind will continue, especially on Tuesday.
Already next Thursday, January 19, the most significant will be the snowfall at low levels of the northern third of the peninsula, while on Friday the 20th the entry of humid air from the northwest will continue but it is likely that it will gradually be less cold, with the consequent rise in snow level. The most relevant of this day will be the rains of the extreme north of the peninsula.
The AEMET has specified that it is probable that on Saturday the 21st the replacement of the Arctic air mass with a more temperate one will be consolidated, thus ending this winter episode.
