We prepare for the cold

Beyond The controversy about whether the “eastern beast” It is really a beast or caniche, the models begin to clear many of the doubts we had about next weekend.

And they are good news for Cold lovers U bad for everything else.

What is the “Beast of the East”? In 2018, A huge temporary ice and snow frozen Much of continental Europe and the British islands. It was then when The name of “Eastern Beast” slipped among the terms used by the media to talk about phenomena similar to that (independently of its intensity).

So are we going to a historical stage of cold and snow? No, the truth is that no. It is an “eastern beast” because the mechanism is, more or less, the same: an anticyclonic bridge that connects several areas of high pressures and blocks the casualty movement from the Atlantic to the continent. Basically, we talk about a wall that goes from Scandinavia to Africa following the coastline.

That will cause a curious phenomenon: that a mass of polar air moves from the northeast European to the southwest; that is, towards Spain.

And what will happen? This type of situation They are difficult to model And, therefore, there are doubts about what their real reach will finally. In fact, now it seems that the dough will not penetrate too much into the peninsular territory. However, that does not mean that you will not put the national meteorology upside down.

What we can expect. At the level of rainfall, there are certain doubts: the mass of air comes from central Europe and is very dry. However, on your trip you can generate cold danas or storms that “Incebilize” the situation. The problem is that we will not know until the last moment: it depends on the final configuration, we will have more or less rain.

What we have any doubt is that we are about to live a full -fledged winter episode. Nothing historical, not a cold wave: but yesterday nights. These days Let’s suffer some very cold nights in which the majority of the innerior capitals will have negative temperatures.

Frost during the weekend They will be extended through the north and peninsular center and can be strong (or very strong) in high areas.

What we should not expect. Despite the name, we must not expect a cold wave: neither for intensity, nor by extension, nor by duration. The cold that comes will be anomalous (because winters are getting warmer), but not exceptional.

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