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Fourteen autonomous communities and Ceuta, all except Extremadura, Castilla-La Mancha and Murcia, will continue this Thursday under the influence of the storm caused by the

Fein

storm and will be at risk due to adverse meteorological phenomena such as rain, snowfall, minimum temperatures, thaws, avalanches, winds or waves, as reported by the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET).

Specifically, the

important risk warning (orange) due to snowfall

will remain activated this Thursday in Cantabria, Álava, Guipúzcoa, Vizcaya, Navarra, Huesca, Zaragoza.

In addition, the provinces of Asturias, León, Palencia, Burgos, Soria, Zamora, La Rioja, Lérida and Madrid will have a risk warning (yellow).

In addition, they will have a risk warning (yellow) for minimum temperatures of -4 to -6 degrees Celsius in the provinces of Huesca, Gerona, Barcelona, ​​Lérida, Granada and Jaén.

Meanwhile, the

yellow warning for rains will affect La Coruña, Lugo, Pontevedra, León, Asturias and Cantabria

, where they can accumulate more than 40 liters per square meter in 12 hours.

The wind with very strong gusts, of up to 100 kilometers per hour, will turn the warning orange for Tarragona and Castellón, while the provinces of Cantabria, Vizcaya, Huesca, Zaragoza, Teruel, Barcelona will have a yellow warning for gusts of 70 to 90 kilometers. , Lérida, Castellón, Valencia, Alicante and the Balearic Islands.

In coastal areas, the AEMET has warned La Coruña, Lugo, Asturias, Cantabria, the Basque Country, Tarragona and north of Castellón due to a significant risk of coastal phenomena, and Pontevedra, Gerona, Barcelona, ​​Valencia, Alicante, the Balearic Islands, the island of Lanzarote (Gran Canaria) and the autonomous city of Melilla.

The rise in temperatures and rainfall will cause thaws, so the AEMET warns Cantabria, Burgos and Navarra of this risk, as well as Huesca and Navarra due to avalanches.

The day will be marked by

locally strong or persistent rainfall in Galicia and the Cantabrian area

and by significant snowfall that will affect the north of the Peninsula.

The frosts will be locally strong in the Pyrenees and intervals of strong winds will blow on the coasts of Galicia, the Cantabrian Sea, the Pyrenees, the northern half of the Mediterranean area, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands.

Specifically, the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands will be under the action of a northwesterly Atlantic flow that will produce cloudy or overcast skies in the northern third of the peninsula, with widespread rains and showers that may be locally strong in Galicia and the Cantabrian area.

In the rest of the northern half and the Balearic Islands there will be cloudy intervals, with the possibility of light rainfall, while in the Canary Islands it will also be a Thursday of cloudy skies and with rain in the north of the major islands, without ruling out weak and scattered rain in the north. rest.

The AEMET specifies that the

snow level will be around 800 to 1,000 meters and rising to 1,500 meters

in the northwest and south of the Peninsula;

from 500 to 700 meters rising to 1,000-1,300 meters in the center and northeast and from 700 to 1,000 meters in the Balearic Islands.

Meanwhile, the maximum temperatures will rise in the northern third of the peninsula, there will be few changes in the rest.

For its part, the minimum will drop in the southern half of the Peninsula and there will be locally strong frosts in the Pyrenees;

they will be moderate in the rest of the mountainous areas, and weak in a large part of the interior of the peninsula.

Finally, it predicts that the winds from the west and the northwest will predominate in the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands and that strong intervals will blow on the Galician and Cantabrian coasts, as well as in the Pyrenees, the northern half of the Mediterranean area and the Balearic Islands.

In the Canary Islands trade winds will blow with strong intervals.

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