The weather will remain unchanged this weekend and early next week, when Christmas Eve and Christmas Day will be celebrated, due to ongoing atmospheric stability caused by a strong anticyclone north of the Azores. This atmospheric configuration blocks the arrival of fronts and storms in Spain, so rain or snow is not expected in practically any part of the country. However, high pressures favor the formation of fog, so the environment will be cold inland, but not on the Mediterranean coasts, where 20° is expected.
This Saturday, the start of Christmas Eve, practically clear skies are expected throughout the peninsula, with fog in the Cantabrian Sea, the Strait, the Balearic Islands, La Mancha and the Duero and Ebro basins, and also in the Tagus This is not excluded and Guadiana, says Cayetano Torres, spokesman for the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet). There may be persistent fog on the northern plateau. Only in the eastern Cantabrian Sea and the western Pyrenees will there be light rain, although rainfall will ease as the hours pass. It will also be very cloudy on the upper Ebro.
In the Canary Islands, there is a yellow warning for rainfall of up to 30 liters per square meter in one hour on Gran Canaria, especially in the east of the island. Maximum temperatures will increase in the Pyrenees and the Iberian system, while decreases will be recorded in western Castile and León, the middle Ebro, Catalonia and the Levant. The minimum temperatures will fall, especially in the north and northeast of the peninsula. As a result, the frosts will increase in extent and intensity and continue to impact the two plateaus and the mountain systems. In Burgos they wake up at -2° and in Madrid at -1°. In Extremadura and the Guadalquivir Valley they are approaching frost levels, while on the coasts the minimum temperatures are between 5° and 9°.
During the day, the thermometer values in southern cities such as Seville or Córdoba are around 16°, while in the east Valencia remains at 17°. In the interior and north, maximum temperatures will not exceed 13°/14°. In the eastern Cantabrian Sea, in the Ebro, in the Balearic Islands, in Ampurdán and under the Ebro, the wind blows strongly from the northwest. In the Canary Islands the wind blows with a weak easterly component.
On Sunday, Christmas Eve, the anticyclonic weather will persist, with clear skies, except for the areas of both plateaus and the Ebro Valley, where the fog may be particularly dense and persistent. In the Canary Islands, rain will continue on the eastern islands, although less heavy than on Saturday. Skies will be partly cloudy in the eastern islands.
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“Maximum temperatures will increase in mountainous areas of the northern half and decrease in low areas of the same areas,” noted the Aemet spokesman. On the coasts of the Mediterranean it only exceeds 15°, in Barcelona 17° and in Murcia 20°. They will also be slightly higher on the Cantabrian coast, with cities like Gijón and Bilbao at 15°. Inland they will not exceed 12°/13° and will even remain below 4° in areas of Castile and León. As for the minimum temperatures, they could fall below -5° in points of the northern plateau and surrounding areas of the Iberian system. Winds will generally be light.
And “next week will begin with the anticyclonic situation of these days and therefore very similar to that of this Saturday and Sunday,” indicates Torres. However, the presence of an Atlantic front from Tuesday will “lead to weak rainfall in areas to the northwest.” Aemet sees a change in the weather in the northern half of the peninsula in mid-week: the atmosphere could become unstable towards the end of the year.