The heat wave leaves 510 dead, 121 in Madrid, and ends after nine days

• Madrid Another 56-year-old worker dies in a ship

• Aemet The heat wave will last more days

The intense, long-lasting and extensive heat wave comes to an end this Monday, after nine days of highs

in almost the entire Peninsula that have left 510 deaths (121 in the Community of Madrid) that can be attributed to the very high temperatures.

According to data provided this Monday by the Carlos III Health Institute, in the first seven days of the heat wave -from July 10 to Saturday 16- 510 people have died from causes that can be attributed to the heat,

In addition, in Madrid, at least two workers are known to have died due to heat stroke, both suffered

: a municipal cleaning worker from the capital and an employee from a factory in Móstoles.

The cleaning unions and the companies in the sector in Madrid will meet tomorrow, Tuesday, to establish permanent protocols in the face of heat waves, and on Thursday the

will meet before the Madrid City Council, after the death of these two workers.

The incidents continue to happen, and two men aged 50 and 60

after suffering heat strokes during midday on Monday in the Ciudad Lineal and Puente de Vallecas districts of the capital.

The suffocating temperatures that will give a

at the start of this week, although the suffocating heat is expected to return in much of the country in the coming days.

The second heat wave of this summer is closed, which has been "exceptional", especially in extension and intensity, but suffocating temperatures still persist locally,

, spokesperson for the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet), has advanced.

that, despite the fact that tomorrow there is no active wave, "the heat with capital letters will remain in some areas".

For the meteorologist, at the moment,

, but she has pointed out the importance of carefully monitoring the weather situation because an increase in values ​​is expected on Thursday.

For now, this Monday the area of ​​maximum incidence of heat will gradually move to the northeast, explained the Aemet spokeswoman, to detail that in the western third the maximum

alleviating the situation and lowering warning levels or directly eliminating them.

The descent will be motivated, among other things, because the

, which has remained off the Portuguese Atlantic coast in recent days, begins to move, more effectively towards the northeast to position itself late this Monday off the Galician coast , bringing the freshest Atlantic air closer to the peninsula.

In Madrid, a slight drop

in temperatures is expected, with maximums between 35 and 37 degrees Celsius (ºC), in what will be a brief parenthesis before the heat wave picks up again on Wednesday.

For the first time in practically a week and a half, the

weather warnings for the Community of Madrid, where the drop in temperatures will be less pronounced in the minimum in the eastern half of the region.

In general, the decrease in maximum temperatures

compared to Monday, and that of the minimum between 1ºC and 3ºC.

On the contrary, today significant increases in the maximum are expected in the

, where the maximum level warnings (red) will register temperatures between 40 and 42 degrees in areas of the coast of Biscay, interior of Biscay, Guipúzcoa, Cuenca of the Nervión and Cantabrian slope of Navarre.

Tomorrow we cannot speak of a heat wave episode because there is not 10 percent of the territory with temperatures that meet those heat wave requirements, but even so there will be areas where high temperatures will remain, and we will continue with an orange alert in the

.

On Wednesday, the temperature drop will finally reach the peninsular northeast, but, on the contrary, the western half will once again experience an increase in its relevant and significant maximums associated with an anticyclonic wedge -between four and six degrees- which will give rise to the heat advisories reissued in the Southwest.

In this way, that day the provinces of

will once again have an orange level, due to maximums that will oscillate between 40 and 42 degrees in points of the Cordovan countryside, the Genil basin

;

In the province of Badajoz, the thermometer will rise to 40 degrees in Siberian Extremadura.

As of Thursday, the maximum values ​​will rise in the northern half and

, as well as in the Canary Islands, and will exceed 35 degrees in the southern half, North plateau, Ebro valley, Mallorca and areas of the Canary Islands, and 40 degrees in the valleys of the Guadalquivir, Guadiana and Tajo, and locally in the south of the central Canary Islands.

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