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The time of this last full week of August will be marked first by extreme heat in much of the Canary Islands , with temperatures that may exceed 40 degrees in Gran Canaria , Fuerteventura and Lanzarote , and by a thermal collapse from Friday that will lower the thermometers up to 14 degrees in the north of the peninsula, so that the weekend will be cool and it could even snow in the Pyrenees .

The summer atmosphere will prevail in most of Spain until Thursday, with slightly cloudy skies, high temperatures and some rain, before a sudden change in weather on Friday that will bring autumn forward in many places in the north of the peninsula, with temperatures close to 20 degrees.

This week there will be "first heat and then cold," according to Rubén del Campo , spokesman for the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet). Thus, the arrival of a warm air mass from Africa will bring a warm episode to the Canary Islands between this Tuesday and Friday.

On those days it will be more than 35 degrees in much of the archipelago and even more than 40 in parts of the interior of some islands. The Aemet prediction, collected by Servimedia, indicates that the hottest days in that archipelago will be Wednesday and Thursday, especially in Gran Canaria . There, Mogán and San Bartolomé de Tirajana could reach 43 degrees, Santa Lucía de Tijarana at 42 degrees, Agüimes at 40. The same happens in Lanzarote , with 42 degrees in San Bartolomé , and Fuerteventura , with 42 degrees in Pájara and 41 in Tuineje .

"The minimum temperatures will also be very high, with values ​​above 27 degrees in much of the archipelago throughout the episode, but pay attention to Gran Canaria because during the early hours of Wednesday to Thursday there may be areas in the southern midlands in the that it does not fall below 30 or even 32 degrees. With air coming from the very dry and very warm African continent, the risk of fire is triggered in the archipelago. Therefore, be very careful, "he explained.

Up to 14 degrees lower

On the other hand, the influence of a very cold air mass from higher latitudes will collapse the thermometers from Friday and throughout the weekend in large areas of Spain, to the point that "a sharp drop in temperatures is expected. temperatures with an almost cold environment in the peninsula ".

Until Thursday, temperatures will be between 5 and 10 degrees above normal in much of the east, south and center of the peninsula, but on Friday and Saturday they will drop significantly. There will be even a cold environment in the north of the peninsula , with values ​​between 5 and 10 degrees below the usual ones.

The thermal drop from Thursday to the weekend will be at least 10 degrees in 26 provincial capitals, with the main drops in Badajoz and Soria (14 degrees less); Ávila , Burgos , Cuenca , Logroño , Madrid , Segovia , Teruel and Zaragoza (13), and Albacete , Ciudad Real , Guadalajara , León , Pamplona and Vitoria (12).

The thermometers will indicate this weekend autumn values ​​such as 18 degrees in Burgos , León and Vitoria , and 19 in Ávila , Oviedo , Pamplona , Segovia and Soria .

In addition, this weekend it is possible that it will rain abundantly in the Cantabrian Sea and the northeast of the peninsula . "The first snows could appear in a testimonial way in the Pyrenees ", concluded Del Campo.

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