Bad weather will not stop this week in Spain. After having spent more than seven days accompanied by adverse meteorological phenomena and rains, the State Meteorological Agency, better known as Aemet, warns that the country will face as of the afternoon of this Monday, November 21, upon the arrival of successive storms and associated Atlantic frontal systems that will once again leave lintense rains and strong winds in a large part of the peninsular territory.
The first rains of the week will arrive this Monday, when the passage of a frontal system will cross the Iberian Peninsula from northeast to southeast, leaving widespread rains in a large part of the territory that could be more intense at the end of the day in the northern Mediterranean area. and that they will last until Tuesday morning. In addition, during Monday night snowfall is also expected in the Pyrenees, with a snow level below 1,300 meters.
Beyond the rains, the most relevant aspect of the meteorological situation in the Mediterranean area will be the arrival of the squall Denise, what As of the night of this Monday, November 21, it will approach the south of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands leaving gusts of wind up to 100 kilometers per hour and a major maritime storm that could cause waves of up to five meters high on the coasts of the island of Menorca.
In Galicia and the Cantabrian Sea, there will also be coastal phenomena that will pose a risk to the population, producing waves of up to five or six meters on Monday and Tuesday that could exceed seven or eight meters during the early hours of Tuesday on the eastern Cantabrian coast. .
The rest of Tuesday the 22nd and the following days, instability will continue to reign in our country. The Aemet assures that precipitation is expected during a large part of the week in the northwestern half of the peninsula which, as the days progress, will be less likely in the south and the Mediterranean area.
Yellow and orange notices until Wednesday
The weather situation will be so complicated for the next few hours that Aemet has been forced to activate yellow and orange notices by winds, rains, storms, adverse coastal phenomena and snowfall in much of mainland Spain. They will only escape the effects of the storm in the interior of Murcia, the Cantabrian strip, in León, in Extremadura, in Guadalajara and Madrid, in the interior of Girona, in Lleida, in the southern part of Huesca, in the western strip from Teruel, in Zaragoza and in the south of Ciudad Real and throughout Andalusia except for the coast of Cádiz, Almería and the easternmost part of Jaén and Granada.
In the Balearic Islands, the orange warning will be active today and tomorrow Tuesday due to strong winds in Ibiza, Formentera and the south of Mallorca, and yellow for the same reason in the rest of the archipelago.
For its part, in the Canary Islands the days will be calm, since none of the storms or fronts that will affect the Peninsula during this week will reach these Atlantic islands. In this archipelago, sunny days with some clouds are expected in the highest areas of the most mountainous islands.
