We knew that Holy Week was going to be complicated. What we didn’t know is that a polar dough was going to complicate it even more

That Holy Week was going to be complicated, we already knew it. What we did not suspect is that, taking advantage of the absence of high pressures, they were going to strain on the whole peninsula A series of polar masses That not only They are going to erase all trace from Borrasca Olivierbut the country’s temperatures will collapse.

What comes from Greenland. As Victor Gonzalez explainedin the next few hours “a very cold air tongue in medium-high layers will take off from the immediate vicinity of Greenland” and “will cause a sharp change of time.”

It is logical, the storm that now affected us (Olivier) came from the Canary Islands with a southern air upstage that contributed to soften temperatures. Polar mass It will move The storm (which will still leave showers and storms) and will knock the thermometers.

So what can we expect from Holy Week? Aemet He has just published An update about the time of the week that begins.

• Monday 14: The models expect rainfall (locally strong and occasionally with a storm) in Galicia that “will be extended by the rest of the Atlantic aspect weak or moderate.” In the Mediterranean, we are likely to meet intense stormy showers and wind gusts. In addition, temperatures will fall throughout the country (except in the Cantabrian, where they will rise).
• Tuesday 15 and Wednesday 16: The rains of the Atlantic facade was a front that preceded the entrance of a polar mass that will collapse temperatures. The snow level, in fact, will remain between 900 and 1,200 in much of the northwest. Generalized rain is expected in much of the country.
• Thursday 17 and Saturday 19: PAt the end of the week, the situation will tend to stabilize. However, everything seems to indicate that a new storm in Galicia will begin to enter and gradually will spread through the northwestern third of the Peninsula.
• Sunday 20 and Monday 21: Although the uncertainty is high, it is “probable that rainfall continues throughout the northern part of the Peninsula, in the Balearic Islands and in part of the east. It is not ruled out that some of these showers can be very intense.

There are no changes on the horizon? The truth is not. Atmospheric circulation does not show great changes and that not only guarantees us a few unusually fresh days, but also makes front and storms continue.

It doesn’t hurt to remember that The monthly forecast of the ECMWF is bet “For an extremely rainy April in the southwest quadrant and peninsular downtown area, with wet anomalies of up to 50 l/m2 compared to the average in Western Andalusia, Sierra de Gredos and locally in the community of Madrid.”

That is, although It is not clear what will happenwe better get used to the rains. Spring continues to delay.

Image | ANDCMWF

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