• Environment Curiosities and forecasts about the first heat wave of the summer that is suffocating Spain

The

heat wave

that has affected a large part of

Spain

since last Wednesday reaches its peak this Saturday and 45 provinces have warnings for high temperatures, of which eight are on red alert for temperatures of about 44 degrees.

"This Saturday will probably be the most adverse day of the heat wave," said

Rubén del Campo

, spokesman for the

State Meteorological Agency

(

Aemet

), who added that this day will become "one of the hottest days in recent years. years "in the whole of Spain.

The

Aemet

prediction

, collected by Servimedia, indicates that temperatures will be significantly high in much of the interior of the peninsula, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands, and will be between 5 and 10 degrees above normal in almost the entire country, and even between 10 and 15 degrees higher than usual in areas of the interior of the eastern Cantabrian, the northeast, the eastern interior, Andalusia and the middle of the Canary Islands.

Temperatures will rise notably in the upper Ebro, the north of Navarra and the interior of the Basque Country and the Valencian Community.

There will be more than 40 degrees in much of the southern half of the peninsula and the Ebro valley and surroundings.

"It will be possible to exceed 42 degrees not only in the valleys of the Tagus, the Guadiana and the Guadalquivir, but also in areas of the south of the Valencian Community and the Region of Murcia. Again, in the Guadalquivir it could exceed 44 degrees and another Once around 46. In the Canary Islands it will exceed 37 degrees in the eastern islands and 35 in the western islands, with a very hot morning there too ", summarized Del Campo.

A total of 21 provincial capitals will have 40 degrees or more, specifically

Córdoba

(47ºC);

Seville

(45);

Badajoz

and

Toledo

(44);

Cáceres

,

Jaén

and

Zaragoza

(43);

Albacete

,

Ciudad Real

,

Granada

and

Lleida

(42);

Guadalajara

,

Logroño

,

Madrid

,

Murcia

and

Pamplona

(41), and

Cuenca

,

Huesca

,

Salamanca

,

Teruel

and

Valladolid

(40).

Notices

On the other hand, warnings for high temperatures affect 45 provinces and only A Coruña, Asturias, Guipúzcoa, Pontevedra and Vizcaya are released.

There is a

red

warning - extreme risk for outdoor activities - in Córdoba (46 degrees in the Countryside), Huelva (44 in El Andévalo and El Condado), Huesca (42 in the south), Jaén (44 in Sierra Morena, El Condado and the Guadalquivir valley), Lleida (42 in the central depression), Seville (44 in the Countryside), Valencia (42 in the northern interior) and Zaragoza (43 on the banks of the Ebro).

The

orange

warning - important risk - is activated in the rest of these aforementioned provinces, most of the interior of the peninsula and the islands of Mallorca, Ibiza and Formentera (Balearic Islands), and of Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura (Canary Islands), since the Temperatures will reach between 37 and 43 degrees, depending on the zones.

And the

yellow warning -

risk - is for areas of Álava, Granada, León, Lugo and Ourense;

coastal or pre-coastal areas of Catalonia and the Valencian Community;

the western Canary Islands and parts of Mallorca and Menorca.

In all these places it will be hot, but not as intense as in most of the rest of Spain.

Storms and haze

On the other hand, another phenomenon this Saturday will be

storms

, which will appear in isolation in the afternoon in mountainous areas of the center and the eastern third of the peninsula, especially in the east of the Central System, the Iberian System and the Pyrenees.

For this reason, the

Aemet

has activated

yellow warnings for storms

in Burgos, Castellón, Girona, Huesca, La Rioja, Lleida, Soria, Teruel and Zaragoza.

In addition, this Saturday there will be

dust in suspension

in most of Spain, which worsens the air quality, but it will be especially adverse on the peaks of Gran Canaria, where there is a yellow warning because visibility will be reduced to less than 3,000 meters.

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