Alerts for freezing temperatures: Spain weather forecast December 12-15
Most of Spain will have to endure another couple of cold, wet days before the weather picks up over the weekend
Weather alerts for Thursday December 12
The weather is playing a game of two halves this coming weekend. On the one hand, the next couple of days will see every kind of adverse condition imaginable, with more than a dozen regions on alert for snow, freezing temperatures, frost and torrential rain.
But as we head in to the weekend proper, things will settle down considerably: all of the weather alerts have been removed for Saturday and Sunday as an anticyclone sets in, the mercury will begin to climb and the heavy rain should subside in most parts.
Thursday December 12
It’s been a washout of a week so far in southern Spain and the rain is expected to continue in the Mediterranean area on Thursday. It will be very overcast overall and strong showers could turn into storms quite easily, particularly in western Andalucía. The downpours will also stretch to the Valencian Community, Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and the Strait of Gibraltar.
It will still be very frosty inland and in the southeast but daytime temperatures will actually start to creep up ever so slightly in most parts, although the mercury will fall in the southwest.
- Orange alert for storms: Andalucía.
- Yellow alert for storms: Balearic Islands, Catalonia, Valencian Community.
- Yellow alert for low temperatures: Aragon, Asturias, Cantabria, Castilla y Leon, Navarra, Rioja.
Friday December 13
A low pressure system to the west of Spain will result in overcast skies in most of the country, with rain likely in much of the south. However, this weather system will begin to move away from the Mediterranean as the hours go by so the weather should dry up later in the day.
Daytime temperatures should increase by a degree or two in most of the country and Friday night will be considerably warmer in the south. As a result, frost will decrease but it will still hit inland Spain and the extreme southeast to some degree.
- Orange alert for storms: Andalucía, Catalonia.
- Yellow alert for low temperatures: Aragon, Castilla y Leon, La Rioja.
Saturday December 14
The weather will clear up on Saturday, although the skies will still be partly cloudy and weak and scattered showers are forecast along the Atlantic coast.
Daytime temperatures should rise slightly across the board, with the exception of the northeast, and Saturday evening will be a little warmer also.
Frost will continue to affect most of the inland regions of the north and areas of the southeast.
No weather alerts have been activated.
Sunday December 15
The anticyclonic situation is expected to persist on Sunday throughout mainland Spain and the Balearic Islands, with partly cloudy skies or intervals of high clouds.
There is only a slight chance of some light rain or occasional showers in the eastern Cantabrian Sea, the upper Ebro, the northern Pyrenees, the coasts of the southern half of the Mediterranean and the Balearic Islands.
No major temperature changes are expected.
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