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The extreme cold is here.

The skies have been clearing during the night, the winds are calm except in some areas of the northern half and conditions are very favorable for the feared but expected drop in temperatures.

As the weather forecast warned, the first icy morning after the heavy snowfalls of the storm Filomena has left very low temperatures in the interior of the Peninsula that have frozen the masses of snow that cover the ground and prevent it from melting.

Last night's record is shared by two Soria towns, Morón de Almazán and Burgo de Osma, which reached -18 ° C, and Molina de Aragón, in Guadalajara, with -17 ° C.

Among the provincial capitals, Rubén del Campo, spokesperson for the State Meteorology Agency (AEMET) highlighted T

oledo and Soria

this morning

, which reached -8 ºC, while Cuenca and Guadalajara scored -7 ºC.

It has also been very cold in Madrid.

In the center, the thermometer in El Retiro Park dropped to -3 ºC although in the surroundings the temperatures have been much lower, highlighting the

-8º in Barajas airport

.

Meanwhile, work continues to remove the remains of the snowfall that according to Del Campo, has left

thicknesses of between 30 and 50 centimeters in the city of Madrid

, surpassing the snowfalls of 1971, 1977 and 1984. The southeast of the capital was where more quantity has accumulated.

In the city of Toledo, between 35 and 50 centimeters of accumulated snow have been measured, but there have been locations where the thickness was even greater, as in Ordaz, with 55 centimeters.

With regard to the Ebro Valley, in Zaragoza, up to 20 centimeters of snow was accumulated in some areas, exceeding the amount that fell in 2005.

In the early hours of this Monday, the white continues to stain a good part of the center of the Peninsula, in addition to the mountain areas:

"Little by little it will melt but it can last several days, even practically the whole week, especially in the east. ",

warns Rubén del Campo.

Colder from the accumulated snow

"Normally, in winter, when the nights are long and the skies are clear and the wind is calm, the cooling of the ground is marked, but if the ground is also covered with snow,

as during the day the snow hardly absorbs the heat of the the sun but rather reflects it, the nighttime cooling is even more pronounced

. And in valley areas or troughs of the land where cold air tends to accumulate, minimum temperatures can be extremely low, "says the meteorologist, who anticipates that" this situation anticyclonic, with clear skies, it will remain in Spain for a few days, practically the whole week. "

"There will be night frosts and they will be strong on snow-covered surfaces," says the spokesman for the AEMET, which has issued a special cold wave warning that in principle is in effect until next Thursday.

Practically the entire country will be affected, except for the coastal areas and the Ebro Valley. There the zierzo, an intense wind, makes it difficult for the thermometer to drop below zero degrees, although it increases the thermal sensation of cold.

The forecast indicates that "rainfall will be generally scarce, although there will be and will affect mainly the Cantabrian area and parts of the Pyrenees and some isolated points of the Mediterranean. There may also be drizzle or weak rains in the north of the islands of the areas mountainous, "adds Del Campo.

The peak of cold will come this morning predictably.

The temperature prediction for the next few days "is subject to more uncertainty than normally due to the presence of snow cover on the ground, but it will be very low night temperatures, also daytime temperatures," says the meteorologist.

"This Monday, the maximums will hardly change compared to Sunday, and they will stay below five degrees in the two plateaus and in the northeast of the peninsula, and it will freeze throughout the day."

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