• Meteorology: The worst storm of autumn comes with 37 provinces warned by snow, wind, waves or rain

The storm that fully affects the northern half of the peninsula with cold, rain, wind and heavy snowfall and that has caused traffic and train restrictions, suspension of classes, the mooring of the fleet and flight modifications , will persist the next hours , with more incidence in Asturias, on red alert.

The General Directorate of Traffic keeps a section of the A-6 in Brazuelo (León) cut, as well as six mountain roads of the secondary network - two in Cantabria, one in Navarra, one in Asturias, one in Granada, one in Salamanca and one in León- and the use of chains or winter tires on thirty roads is mandatory .

The fall of trees keeps the Gijón-Pravia metric gauge railway line between Piedras Blancas and Santiago del Monte interrupted from the early hours of this afternoon, and Cudillero to Ferrol has already been reopened.

In Galicia, the worst has been experienced in A Coruña, where the fishing fleet remains moored by the strong waves, which has recorded peaks of up to 14 meters and has destroyed almost 100 meters of the perimeter closure of the Sports City of Abegondo.

The strong wind, which has blown with gusts of 121 kilometers per hour in Estaca de Bares, has caused the fall of trees, poles, lampposts and walls in Vigo, has caused a tornado that has damaged the lighting of the town of Arteixo and has forced to modify the route of four flights to A Coruña and Vigo and to cancel the maritime transport service in the Vigo estuary.

On the other hand, about 850 students have run out of class on the mountain of Lugo and about 500 in 15 municipalities of Ávila, León, Soria and Zamora, while in Castilla-La Mancha a total of six school routes in the provinces of Cuenca and Guadalajara had to be advanced or suspended, with 55 students affected.

The storm over the British Isles is associated with a cold front, "very wet and unstable", which makes the rains important, mainly in mountain areas of the northern half, where the snow has made an appearance at low levels , Even in the city of Ávila, the spokesman for the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet), Rubén del Campo, told Efe.

Heavy storms

Strong storms have been associated with the storm, such as the one experienced at dawn with a strong electric device in Barcelona, ​​and the Aemet has recorded in about six hours about 2,000 rays , mostly in the Cantabrian and on the coast of Catalonia.

The Meteorological Agency keeps the red warning for maritime storm in force on the coast of Galicia, where waves of 10 meters and high winds are still expected at the front, and the orange alert (significant risk) persists throughout the Galician coast, from Asturias, Cantabria and the Basque Country and in the northern mountains.

In the Cantabrian Mountains it will snow again at 700 meters and, even, at a lower level, as well as in the Iberian and Central systems, and in the southern peninsula and Mallorca, the level will be between 900 and 1,000 meters.

It will also be colder at the end of the day, with minimums that will touch 10 degrees below zero in the mountainous and icy environments in many points of the North Plateau, and tomorrow the maximums will no longer reach 10 degrees anywhere in the interior Peninsular and the wind will intensify the sensation of cold.

"This flow of winds from the north, humid, cold and unstable, will also ensure that on Friday the precipitation continues in the northern third of the Peninsula , again with heavy and locally persistent rains and snowfall," announced Del Campo.

It will rain or snow with less intensity in areas of the Central, Iberian system, mountains of eastern Andalusia, northern plateau and high Ebro and there will be some remaining instability in the Balearic Islands, the level will be lower the further north and the accumulations of 40 centimeters, the intense waves, six meters in Galicia and Cantabrian, and "it will be colder than today, both day and night," he stressed.

"To look for heat," he said, "we will have to go to the Canary Islands, with 22 degrees and on the sidelines of a storm that, at best, will leave some rain in the north of the islands and intense wind due to the trade winds regime."

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