When 16 days have passed since the heat wave began which has been heating Spain since August 3, The State Meteorology Agency He announced that on Monday, August 18, high temperatures will begin to lower. A few days that turn this wave as one of the strongest in recent history in our country.
A street thermometer marked 47 degrees this Sunday in Murcia Capital
As they point out from the Aemet, Spain will live a “remarkable decrease in temperatures in half a peninsular northwest” due to the “passage of a trough on the peninsular northwest, which will instill the atmosphere and begin the end of the heat wave with the entrance of a fresher Atlantic air mass. “With this, they communicate that they expect a” practically generalized descent “of the thermometers.
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However, the State Meteorology Agency It does not cease the protection of the citizens and has issued on Monday two red notices for “very high maximum temperatures on Monday, August 18”. Specifically, the territories on alert are the southern coast of Alicante, with 42ºC or more, and Vega del Segura, in Murcia, with 44 degrees or more.
Along the same lines, Aemet highlights that it is “They will maintain significantly high values in the southeast half, as well as in areas of Balearic Islands, even 40 degrees in the Guadalquivir and depressions of Southeast. ”
Tourists are refresh at the source of gutters this Sunday in Barcelona
Finally, with regard to the rains, it seems that they will make an appearance in northern Spain: “Cloudiness is expected low in northern Galicia and the Cantabrian, With dispersed weak rains. (…) In the afternoon, cloudiness of abundant evolution will be developed in the eastern half, where they are probable showers and storms in mountain and nearby areas. They can be locally strong in Pyrenees and Eastern Iberian. ”
