During the afternoon of this Sunday, February 26, a very cold air mass will enter the northeast of the peninsula that will cause a significant drop in temperatures in the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands during the first part of the week.
This cold air mass, which will continue throughout Monday, will also cause the minimum values to collapse at night. It will affect the entire Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, although today it will be more intense in the Pyrenees, Catalonia, areas of the Ebro Valley and the islands.
Five autonomous communities (Cantabria, Castilla y León, Castilla-La Mancha, Community of Madrid and La Rioja) will have a risk warning (yellow) this Sunday due to low temperatures, which may reach -8ºC in the mountainous area of the interior of the peninsula .
In addition, the Balearic Islands and Catalonia present a risk due to coastal phenomena, while Aragón, Catalonia, Navarra and the Valencian Community will have strong winds, as forecast by the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) for this Sunday.
Specifically, the risk of low temperatures of up to -6ºC will occur in Cantabria, Valladolid, Segovia, Salamanca, León and Burgos, snowfall is also expected in these two provinces. The minimums will reach -8ºC in Ávila, Soria, Zamora and Guadalajara.
Likewise, in the Sierra de Madrid the minimum temperatures will drop to -7ºC and in La Rioja freezing temperatures of up to -6ºC are also expected with the risk of snowfall.
As for the wind, due to yellow risk there are Huesca, Teruel, Zaragoza, Girona, where the wind will blow with maximum gusts of up to 80 kilometers per hour and in Tarragona, with winds of 70 kilometers per hour. Likewise, in Navarra, in the Pyrenees and the Ribero del Ebro, strong gusty winds are expected, as in Castellón.
The coastal phenomena will occur in Mallorca and Menorca, as well as on the Girona coast with waves of up to three meters.
In the second half of Sunday, showers are expected in eastern Catalonia and slightly cloudy skies will predominate in the rest of the Peninsula.
In the Canary Islands there will be cloudy intervals with a probability of some precipitation in the north of the islands, and in the afternoon some showers also in the south.
The snowfall will appear from 700 to 900 meters in the northeast half of the peninsula, dropping to 0-200 meters in the northeast quadrant, and 200-500 meters in the rest and about 700 to 900 meters in the southwest of the peninsula.
As for the maximum temperatures, they will decrease in the northeastern third of the peninsula, except in the interior of Catalonia and the northeast of Aragon where they will increase, as in the rest of the country. The minimums will decrease in the extreme northwest and northeast of the peninsula and, in general, will increase in the rest of the areas of the northern half and in the Canary Islands.
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