Official weather alerts in Spain

[Darren]

A total of 38 provinces remain on yellow alert Tuesday (risk) or orange (significant risk) by wind, rain, snow, cold waves, although locally record a remarkable rise of minimum temperatures in the northwest corner of the peninsula, according to prediction of the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET).

The Directorate General of Civil Defense and Emergencies has advised citizens to exercise extreme caution to the winds and widespread heavy rains.

The road from the main supply had improved markedly in the early hours on Tuesday, while maintaining the use of chains and restrictions for trucks in the old section of N-430, in Ciudad Real in its path by Manzanares, according information from the Traffic Department.

It also recommended caution on the roads in the core network of Albacete and Cuenca. While in the secondary, problems persisted and there were many roads closed or mandatory use of chains, especially in Teruel, Zaragoza, Burgos, Tarragona.

Therefore, the DGT discouraged travel on back roads at night because the ice sheets can cause dangerous traffic or, in any case to carry chains if you must use the car.

Only Valencia and the two archipelagos are waging some kind of warning. Thus, locally heavy precipitation is expected and / or persistent in Galicia and areas in southwestern Spain, and strong wind gusts in some coastal areas and highest in the Peninsula.

Specifically, the entire Galician coast is on orange alert by waves and the Cantabrian on yellow alert. Furthermore, Lugo, Pontevedra and Ourense are on alert due to rains and strong winds. Also, Asturias, Cantabria, Vizcaya and Guipuzcoa, keep the wind notice.

Meanwhile, Leon and Palencia are on orange alert for snow and wind yellow and Navarre and Lleida on yellow alert for snow and low temperatures. In Huesca, snow joins the risk of avalanches. Guadalajara is also on alert for snow and wind, as Zamora, Salamanca while the notice remains wind and melting. Barcelona and Tarragona are also on alert for minimum temperatures.

For wind warning is in La Rioja, Zaragoza and Teruel, Burgos, Soria, Segovia, Valladolid, Toledo, Cuenca, Ciudad Real, Albacete, Madrid, Jaen and Almeria. Meanwhile, rain and wind put on standby to Cáceres and Badajoz, Huelva, Seville, Cordoba and Cadiz, in the Strait area, like the autonomous city of Ceuta.

n the Peninsula and the Balearics, the skies are very cloudy with weak or moderate rain will spread from west to east throughout the day. May be locally persistent and / or strong in Galicia and areas in southwestern Spain and will be weaker and dispersed the further east, especially in the Mediterranean area.

The coat of snow during the day going up and down again at the end: in the northern third of peninsular 900/1.500 meters, in the center, 1.200/1.600 meters, and in the southern third 1.500/2.200 meters. In the Canaries, have little cloudy skies dominated.

Also expected mist and fog banks persistent rainfall. In the Peninsula and the Balearics, the rising temperatures will moderate and minimal in the Mediterranean area will remain unchanged.

In the rest of the Peninsula, will moderate rising, which will be notable in the northwest. Weak frosts are also expected to moderate in inland areas of the northern half and southeast peninsula. In the Canaries, temperatures will remain unchanged or slightly rising.

As for the wind in the Peninsula and the Balearics, is expected winds from the south and west generally weak to moderate, reaching gusts strong or very strong in highlands of the peninsula coast of Galicia, the Cantabrian Sea Alborán, and end of the day in Valencia and the Balearics.

[Darren]

A Siberian cold snap will affect today and tomorrow to Spain, leaving rain, especially in the south east peninsula, north-east wind, snow and lower temperatures sufficiently sensitive in the peninsula, said spokesman of the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET), Angel Rivera.

This storm "important", which comes from northern Europe through France and the Pyrenees, is a different time before and it is expected to stop in the Peninsula, but "pass along" during the day tomorrow, and continue to Morocco and Algeria. The situation will get worse between now and the end of tomorrow," said Rivera.

The heaviest rains were recorded in the middle, Valencia and south east peninsula, where they can drop more than 80 litres per square meter, while also increased precipitation in the north, but are reduced. Rivera said will begin as rain in the eastern peninsula of him, and overnight will be extended to several areas of the interior.

Snow tonight in Madrid

As for the coat of snow, will be at 400 meters in the north, while the area east, southeast and center of the peninsula will be around 500, 600 or 700 meters, depending on the area. Furthermore, another feature of this storm is that the northeast wind today and tomorrow will accompany the storm, which will increase the sensation of cold in the Peninsula.

Community and City Hall have activated their plans Inclement Winter and Nevada, respectively, before the notice of that tonight and will snow overnight across the region, including the capital and the metropolitan area.

However, Rivera said that on Wednesday morning and will be the day and the coldest night in recent days as the cessation of the temporary frost will intensify, especially in inland areas.

Thus, expected Wednesday in the northern half maximum thermometers marked no more than three or four degrees, while in the southern plateau temperatures were recorded four, five or six degrees centigrade. Meanwhile, in Andalusia and its costs will not raise the mercury of the nine, ten or eleven degrees.

As for the minimum in the morning on Thursday will be seven or eight degrees below zero on the upper plateau, and three or four below zero in the upper plateau in central Spain.

[Darren]

The arrival of another cold front puts 47 provinces on alert for snow and ice

A new front will enter tomorrow's southern peninsula leaving behind widespread frost in the northern half and central peninsular and snow at any elevation of the eastern and south eastern Cantabrian Castilla-La Mancha, and temperatures could reach 10 degrees below zero.

As indicated by the head of Meteorology, China Meteorological Agency (AEMET), Angel Alcazar, frost will continue throughout the weekend, more intense in the mountains of the Pyrenees and the central system, after the last morning the thermometer stood at -12.4 degrees Celsius in the port of Navacerrada (Madrid) or -10.2 degrees Roncesvalles (Navarra).

In addition, strong wind gusts blowing in the Northeast and Islands areas at risk of snow and avalanches that could create a situation "quite" dangerous. On the other hand, precipitation "will not be very important," but may be snow at sea level.

For tomorrow, a total of 47 Spanish provinces are on alert, 10 are on orange alert (significant risk) by snow and low temperatures. By Sunday, the figure was lowered to 30 provinces on alert, two (Madrid and Huesca) on orange alert for minimum temperatures.

Regarding the prediction of the Sabbath, contemplates AEMET cloudy skies with weak rainfall in the Bay of Biscay, which may also occur in the north of Lugo, mountainous northern tip of Castilla y Leon and Andalusia High Ebro, Murcia, Castilla-half southeast La Mancha, Valencia and Baleares, cloudy to mostly cloudy with weak or locally moderate precipitation that may be persistent in the Strait area the first half of the day.

In weaker form, could also affect the rest of Castilla-La Mancha, south side of Madrid and the Catalonian coast, while at the end of the day, both the precipitation and cloudiness will begin to diminish from west to east. In the rest of the western half of the peninsula, predominantly sunny skies and the rest of the eastern half, cloudy intervals. In the Canaries, cloudy with chance of light rains in the northern islands of higher profile, and light cloud in the rest with the possibility of some light rain in Lanzarote.

The coat of snow will be located on the northern tip of the peninsula, between sea level and 200 meters in Madrid, between 500 and 600 meters, in Castilla-La Mancha, at any altitude, in the Levant and the Balearic Islands between 200 and 600 meters, and at the southern tip of the peninsula, between 600 and 1,000 meters.

Highs in the Peninsula will remain unchanged or showed a slight decrease while the minimum in the southern half will have a mild to moderate ascent, and the rest, unchanged or rising slightly. In the Balearic Islands, rising daytime light and night time unchanged or decline slightly. In the Canaries, temperatures unchanged and slightly decreased at higher elevations. AEMET also provides generalized weak or moderate frost in the interior of northern and central peninsula, strong timely Pyrenees.

On Sunday, colder

For the day Sunday, except in the southern peninsular stubborn, widespread frost is expected in the interior, moderate in the northern half and stronger in time Pyrenees.

Overall, in the Eastern Cantabrian will wake cloudy skies with rain or very cloudy weak, most likely on the coast of Cantabria and the Basque Country, and likely in the northeast corner of Castilla y Leon and the High Ebro Levante peninsular dominance of cloudy or very cloudy skies, with weak rainfall in the southern half of the Valencian Community, which may be more dispersed in Murcia, and tending to refer from the afternoon.

On the coast and the northeastern Catalonia provides periodic clouds with the possibility of some occasional weak precipitation, while the rest of the peninsula with cloudy skies, increasing cloudiness from the southwest to the northeast, to be very cloudy or covered in South Peninsula, and with high cloudiness in the northern third and the Ebro Valley

At the end of the day, rain was forecast weak or locally moderate in the south west of Andalusia and Extremadura. In the Balearic Islands, cloudy or very cloudy with light rains, and increase cloudiness Islands from west to east, with moderate rain showers, which could become strong promptly.

The coat of snow will be in the eastern Cantabrian between sea level and 100 meters, in Northeast and Upper Ebro Burgos, at any altitude, in the Levant, in the 400 meters, in the Balearic islands in the 600 meters, and in southwestern peninsular above 1,500 meters.

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[Darren]

Orange alert for snow in 10 provinces

Albacete, Cuenca, Guadalajara, Toledo, Avila, Alicante, Castellon, Valencia, Caceres and Madrid are on orange alert Monday over the possibility of heavy snowfall, according to the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET).

Also, a yellow alert for snow in Navarra, Murcia, La Rioja, Soria, Segovia, Salamanca, Ciudad Real, Zaragoza, Teruel, Jaén, Granada and Almeria. The orange alert is activated by low temperatures in Huesca and Navarre and for strong wings in Tenerife.

At risk by low temperature, yellow level are all the provinces of the Basque Country and Catalonia and La Rioja, Asturias, Madrid, Soria, Burgos, León, Zaragoza, Palencia and Guadalajara.

Also yellow alert is activated by rain and wind in the Canary Islands, Cadiz, Malaga, Huelva and Seville.

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[Darren]

Bad weather gives no respite. A total of 38 provinces remain on alert today because of rain, wind, snow or storm surge, according to the forecast of the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET). In addition, rainfall will be frequent in most parts of the country.

Specifically, Malaga record orange alert (significant risk) by heavy rains, while the yellow alert for extended rainfall to Seville and Cadiz and Huelva, who also suffer heavy swell. Meanwhile, Granada and Jaen recorded wind gusts to 70 mph.

In Galicia, the strong waves and wind gusts of up to 100 kilometers per hour to remain at orange alert Lugo and Ourense, plus a Pontevedra and A Coruña where risk will also yellow rain.

The alert for snow and wind will spread to Cuenca, Guadalajara, Toledo, Avila, Burgos, León, Palencia, Salamanca, Segovia, Soria, Zamora, Madrid, Navarra, Cáceres, Zaragoza and Huesca.

In the Pyrenees of Huesca will also keep the risk of avalanches. The wind also affect La Rioja, Alava, Guipuzcoa, Vizcaya, Cantabria and Asturias. For its part, the Canary Islands remain on alert for storm surge, wind and rain, except Fuerteventura and Lanzarote.

In most parts of the country, the skies will remain cloudy and recorded very weak or moderate rainfall. The rains will be more likely and intense in the Canaries and the Atlantic basin, are persistent in Galicia and Central System and probably strong in Western Andalusia, the narrow area in the western islands of the Canaries. By contrast, weak precipitation is expected in the east coast of the peninsula and the Balearic Islands, whereas they will be unlikely in the Cantabrian coast.

As thermometers registered a slight to moderate rise, except in Catalonia and Aragon, where they will remain little changed. The coat of snow in the northern half of the peninsula will remain at about 700/800 up to 1,500 meters, while the south will oscillate around 1,500 up to 2,000. Weak frosts are expected in mountain areas and nearby areas.

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[Darren]

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Preparing for the 'Perfect Storm'

Its technical name scares - "explosive cyclogenesis" - but we know as the 'Perfect storm'. Saturday comes and its effects are quite lighter than his name changing and hurricane wind and little rain. The Directorate General of Civil Defense and Emergencies Ministry has activated the alert for all of Spain, which is maximum (red) in the north. On Saturday they expect wind gusts to 160 mph in Galicia, the Cantabrian and Castile and Leon.

That same day, but to a lesser extent, the storm will also affect the south of Gran Canaria, Aragon, Navarra, and New Castile, Madrid and Extremadura, with gusts to around 90 mph. In the south and east of the peninsula are expected up to 70 kilometers. Before this background, how you prepare? What should I do?

First, use common sense and take precautions to avoid problems, including addressing specific tips in each autonomous community. But there is more, Pay attention.

Precautions

• Avoid road travel as far as possible, and outputs the mountain and the sea.
• Close and secure doors, windows or awnings.
• Remove all pots and objects that could fall into the street and cause an accident. In any case, if into the wind, deteriorating roofs, antennas, etc.., Avoid up to repair them as long as the episode of wind and alert.
• Avoid making school sports and extreme sports, especially mountain and water.
• It is advisable not to carry out or exercise in parks and wooded areas.

If you are in the street or in the campo

• It is desirable to move away from ledges, walls, trees or cranes, they can get to break off and take precautions before building or buildings in disrepair.
• Refrain from climbing scaffolding or cranes, without adequate protective measures. In any case, it is preferable not to go to these places.

If you're travelling

• Avoid road travel and if necessary make them, be extremely careful about the possible presence of obstacles on the road.
• If driving, exercise caution, especially in the exit tunnel, overtaking and crossing roads with heavy vehicles in both directions.
• Finding out weather conditions of the area you are going.

If you are in maritime areas

• Move away from the beach and other low spots that might be affected by high tides and waves that tend to arise at the intensity of winds.
• In such situations, the sea acquires extraordinary conditions and may drag if you are in the proximity of the sea.

Mobilizing leadership

Civil Defense has alerted the Government Offices, the Security Forces are the state, the Emergency Military Unit, the autonomous communities concerned and appropriate agencies. From 1200 hours, Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, will head the meeting of the State Committee on Coordination to unfavorable weather conditions. Airports, Renfe and the utilities are also alert.

The State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) explained that the origin of these strong winds is a deep Atlantic storm technically known as "explosive cyclogenesis", ie a storm with a very short life cycle of between 24 and 36 hours, but "very intense and very strong winds.

The storm entered the Canaries and overnight will move to the peninsula from west to east, where it will be released in the morning and early Sunday.Along the way, the storm will very strong wind gusts in the Canaries (90-120 kph) and gusts hurricane (120-160 km / h) in Galicia, Cantabria and northern area of Castilla y Leon.

At sea, the wind reached Force 9 (strong temporal) in the sea area Finisterre and the strength of 10, sometimes 11, (temporary hard or very hard) in the Cantabrian Sea.

In Galicia, the Xunta has activated a special device consisting of more than 2,000 people to attend all incidents. In other communities, as in the Basque country, has been suspended outdoor sports among the three in the afternoon on Saturday and Sunday the same time.

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[Darren]

Low temperatures - up to 9 degrees below zero in Catalonia - the snow, rain and wind kept on alert thirty provinces, plus the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla.

The State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) orange alert was activated (significant risk) because of the snow in Huesca, Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, Tarragona, Castellón and Valencia.

Girona and Barcelona are also on orange alert for coastal wind and rain, and for this last phenomenon also Tarragona.

On yellow alert (risk) in the snow are the provinces of Teruel, Zaragoza, Cantabria, Cuenca, Guadalajara, Burgos, Palencia, Navarre, Alicante, Mallorca, La Rioja, Alava, Guipuzcoa, Vizcaya and Asturias.

AEMET also activated the yellow level because of low temperatures in Huesca, Teruel, Zaragoza, Cantabria, Guadalajara, Burgos, León, Palencia, Segovia, Soria, Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, Madrid, Navarra, La Rioja and Asturias and rain in Cadiz, Ceuta, Balearic Islands and Melilla.

In areas of Barcelona, Lleida and Girona, the thermometer can reach 9 degrees Celsius and 8 to 6 degrees below zero in the other provinces on alert.

The coastal wind blowing strongly in Almeria, La Coruña, Burgos, Ibiza, Formentera, Mallorca, Menorca and Melilla.

[Darren]

Snow and cold alert in 18 provinces on Saturday.

A total of 18 provinces, mostly from the northern peninsula and the island of Minorca, are now on alert due to snow and low temperatures, as predicted from the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET).

Specifically, the snow will activate the orange alert (significant risk) in Asturias, Basque Country, Cantabria and Burgos, and the yellow alert (risk) in León, Palencia, Soria, Navarre and La Rioja.


Yellow alert is also expected by low temperatures in Madrid, Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, Guadalajara, Huesca. Finally, the island of Menorca is in the same situation for coastal phenomena effects.


In Catalonia, at least 10,000 people remain without power after heavy snow on Monday.

Regarding the prediction, predicts AEMET weak to moderate rain, possibly hail storm in the Bay of Biscay area, while in the western Pyrenees precipitation is expected locally weak or moderate, which will be likely in the rest of Pyrenees to the Valley Aran.

In the north of Galicia, north and east of Castile and Leon, the High Ebro, Iberian mountain system of Madrid will be weakest and rainfall in the rest of the northern half and eastern half of the Peninsula, light cloud, with possibility of some light rain occasional scattered from the afternoon on the plateau south.


In Melilla, the forecast intervals AEMET cloudy with a chance of light rain, and the rest of the Peninsula and Ceuta skies with cloudy or clear. In the Balearic Islands, with light cloud weak chance of rainfall, possible in the Pine and the Canary Islands, clouds tending to cloudy intervals in the north and partly cloudy in the south

The snow elevation ranging between 300 and 700 meters north of the peninsula in half, and 700 meters in the Balearics. Also we expect morning fog banks in the interior of Galicia.

As temperatures in the peninsula, the highest in the northeast quadrant will experience a slight rise, and the rest are not expected unchanged. The minimum decline slightly to moderate in the southeast, but in the Ebro Valley will a slight rise slightly. In the rest unchanged.


In the Balearic Islands, temperatures are expected unchanged or rising slightly, and the Canary Islands, unchanged or declining slightly. In addition, there will be weak or locally moderate frost inside the northern half, except in some areas of the Ebro Valley, and weakest in the south and interior plateau of Valencia and the southeast, which may be likely in Mallorca Ibiza and Formentera.


Finally, in the Peninsula and Balearic Islands are expected weak winds from the north or moderate, with intervals of strong in Ebro Valley and northeastern highlands of the peninsula, still strong in the northeast of Girona.

En Canarias, del noroeste moderado a fuerte.

In the Canary Islands, northwest moderate to strong.


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[Darren]

A total of 16 provinces remain yellow alert Wednesday in the wind and snow and temperatures reaching -1 degrees Celsius, in the case of the minimum in Salamanca and Segovia, as predicted from the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) .

Specifically, are on alert for snow Asturias, León, Palencia, Burgos and Cantabria (Snow), by wind and snow, Navarra, Huesca and Zaragoza, and wind, Teruel, La Rioja, Tarragona, Guadalajara, Madrid, Cuenca, Albacete and Castellón, as well as the coast of Gerona.

Thus, we expect snow in the Cantabrian Mountains and Pyrenees and strong to very strong winds in areas of the eastern half of the peninsula, especially in the Northeast.

Thus, in the extreme north of the peninsula and the Balearic Islands, there will be weak or moderate rainfall, more frequent in the eastern and northern Cantabria Navarra and the Balearic and possible thunderstorms in northeastern Catalonia. They may have more weak and dispersed to other parts of the High Ebro, east of the two plateaus, interior north of the Valencian Community and the Central System and Iberian.

In Andalusia, Extremadura and west of the two plateaus will be partly cloudy skies dominated. In the rest of the peninsula, provides periodic clouds and the Canary Islands in the north of the islands of higher profile, cloudy skies and the rest, cloudy intervals.

The coat of snow is situated on a peninsula between 700 and 1,200 meters in the northern third and the 800 and 1,000 meters up to 1,300 and 1,700 in the rest of the northern half and central area.

Meanwhile, temperatures will remain in the Canaries and Balearic Islands with few changes, and the rest, the highest in mild or moderate increase and the lowest, slightly down in Andalusia and Extremadura and unchanged or slightly rising in the rest. There will be frost weak in mountain areas of northern Spain, which could affect parts of the northern plateau.

Finally, the wind will blow from the north in the north east quadrant of the peninsula and moderate to strong, very strong gusts. In the rest of the Peninsula, will be light to moderate, with intervals of strong in the rest of the eastern half and north western coast of Galicia. In the Balearic Islands, Strait and Mediterranean coast of Andalusia, the wind will be from the west loose or moderate and strong in Melilla.

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[Darren]

The State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) has enabled alerts in 10 provinces in northeastern and central peninsula, due to rains that can leave up to six inches of snow. Lleida está en alerta amarilla (riesgo bajo) por nevadas de hasta seis centímetros en el Valle de Arán. Lleida is on yellow alert (low risk) for up to six inches of snow in the Aran Valley. Also expected up to five inches of snow in Navarra, La Rioja, Burgos, Soria, Segovia, Huesca, Zaragoza, Guadalajara and the Sierra de Madrid.