Although this week began with a certain stability throughout the Peninsula, the arrival of A high-impact storm will change the situation starting this Wednesday and especially will do so on Thursday. It is about Caetanothe third of this season with its own name after Aitor and Berenice. Although the reality is that it will be restricted to the north and east of the peninsula, its effects will be noticed in several regionsleaving heavy rainfall, strong sea storms and powerful gusts of wind.
As detailed by the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet), Caetano will leave rain starting this Wednesday in Galicia, in the Cantabrian area and in the upper Ebro, as well as in the Pyrenees and in the northeast of Catalonia. This day there will also be snowfall in the most mountainous areas, especially in the Pyrenees, where the snow level will be at 1,500 meters at the end of the day. In fact, more than five centimeters of new snow can accumulate in the Aran Valley.
The wind will also be an important component throughout the day with very strong gusts that will exceed 80 km/h on the Cantabrian coastbut also in Aragon, Catalonia, Castellón and the Balearic Islands. They will be especially strong in Tarragona, where these gusts can go up to 90 km7h.
In the same way, fog will appear in the morning in the interior of the Peninsula, in Castilla-La Mancha, Extremadura, and in some interior parts of Andalusia. The sea, on the other hand, will also leave waves of up to four or five meters in the Cantabrian Sea, but Andalusia will also activate warnings for waves of up to three meters in Almería, Granada, Barcelona or Girona.
It will be Thursday when the storm strengthens even morewith rainfall that will be even more intense in the north of the peninsula and that will also reach other inland areas. In the afternoon, the rainfall will become even heavier, especially in Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria and the Basque Country. The Galician territory will, thus, be the area that will register the most rainfall with accumulations exceeding 100 liters per square meter, although the accumulations in some areas of the Cantabrian Sea and the Mediterranean will also be notable.
On Thursday, in addition, both snow and wind will continue to be important. The heights in the Pyrenees will be at 1,600 meters and in the mountainous areas of the Cantabrian Sea may drop to 1,400 or even 1,200 meters. This day the warnings for strong gusts of wind will continue to be active in Galicia, in the north and east of Castilla y León, in La Rioja, Aragon, Catalonia, the Valencian Community, the Balearic Islands and in Albacete. Likewise, strong winds will continue to cause large waves.
Caetano will leave on Friday
By Friday the situation will begin to change, with Caetano moving away towards the east of Europe, so the wind and waves will begin to decrease. The rains, yes, They will extend in the morning towards the interior of the peninsula, although they will quickly stop and will not have much distance.
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After the passage of Caetano, temperatures will drop this day in the north and frost may occur, especially in the Pyrenees area. There the snow levels will drop to 800-1000 meters and up to 30 centimeters of snow can accumulate. Similarly, in the Cantabrian area they will be located at 1000-1400 meters.
However, this drop in temperatures will only be noticed in the north of the peninsula, since In the rest of the country the maximums will rise. With this, it is expected that heading into the weekend the cold will recede and mild temperatures will once again prevail on the Peninsula. Despite this, the weather will be variable and there will be a lot of cloudiness throughout the territory, which It will alternate with periods of sun and showers, although these scenarios are yet to be confirmed.
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