Madrid.- The first heat wave of this summer in Spain will reach its peak this Monday, of intensity with maximums that could exceed 44 degrees, which entails an “extreme” risk, advanced the spokesman for the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) , Rubén Del Campo, who added that the areas most affected by the sweltering heat will be Andalusia, Extremadura, Castilla La Mancha and the Community of Madrid.
“We have at least three more days of very intense heat ahead of us,” warned Del Campo, to ask the population for “great caution” and also with forest fires.
Faced with this situation, Meteorology today activated the warning for intense heat in 8 communities -Aragón, both Castillas, Catalonia, Extremadura, Madrid, the Valencian Community and Andalusia, with special intensity in the latter, with a red warning (extreme risk) for temperatures of 44 degrees in the Cordovan and Sevillian countryside.
Del Campo explained that these temperatures continue in line with those registered yesterday Sunday, when maximum temperatures of over 42 degrees were reached in Western Andalusia and southern Extremadura: 43 degrees in Fuentes de Andalucía (Seville) and in Montoro (Córdoba) and 44 degrees in The Granada (Huelva).
The spokesman also warned about the very warm values of this past early morning: At 6 in the morning, for example, the thermometers exceeded 25 degrees in many points in the southern half and in the capital Cádiz up to 27 degrees were registered at that time.
This heat wave is fundamentally affecting the central and southwestern part of the Iberian Peninsula, with greater intensity in the Community of Madrid, Extremadura, western Castilla-La Mancha and Andalusia, although in other areas such as the northern plateau, Aragon, Mediterranean communities and Mallorca the heat is also intense.
On the contrary, the Cantabrian communities, where the northerly winds bring cloudiness and keep temperatures below 25 degrees, are spared from this situation.
For Tuesday, a similar situation will persist with a very hot environment, except in the Bay of Biscay, and temperatures will exceed 34-36 degrees in the southern half and in the Ebro depression and 38-40 degrees in the Tagus and Guadiana valleys. and Guadalquivir.
In the Guadalquivir it will probably exceed 42 degrees, especially in Córdoba and Seville, values that contrast with the maximum 23-25 degrees in the north of Navarra, Cantabrian communities, northern Galicia, Pamplona, Vitoria and A Coruña.
On Wednesday there will be hardly any changes in the situation, with a very warm environment again and with temperatures similar to those of Tuesday in most of the territory and, on the contrary, cooler in the Cantabrian communities with the possibility of storms in mountainous environments.
During these two days, the early mornings will also be very warm and it will not drop from 20 to 22 degrees in the Mediterranean area, in the central zone and in the southern half, and there will even be points where it will not drop from 25 degrees to sunrise.
As of Thursday, the approach of a trough, that is, a kind of tongue of cold air in the upper layers of the atmosphere, accompanied by cooler Atlantic air, will favor an increase in instability with rain and possible stormy showers in wide areas. central and eastern peninsular areas.
Although the maximum temperatures will drop that day, especially in the western end of the peninsula, it will still be quite hot in the Guadalquivir valley as well as in the northeast, east, center and southern half of the country, as well as in Mallorca.
On Friday there will be “a more generalized thermal drop of up to 5 degrees compared to the previous day”, more pronounced in the north and central area accompanied by stormy showers, the spokesman concluded.
