Storm

Juliette

, the tenth of the season, will put

more than 30 provinces on cold alert

this Monday, with temperatures as low as -10ºC, and 13 provinces due to snowfall, including the Balearic Islands with extreme risk (red), according to the forecast by the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET).

A mass of very cold air, of arctic origin, will enter through the northeast of the peninsula, causing a marked drop in daytime temperatures, except in the interior of Catalonia and the northeast of Aragon.

Thus, this Monday a general decrease in daytime temperatures

is expected , more pronounced in the eastern half of the peninsula and the Balearic Islands

.

It is probable that it will not exceed 5ºC in large areas of the northern half of the peninsula.

In this context, night temperatures, which are already beginning this episode of intense cold with frost in large areas of the Peninsula, will drop this Monday in a large part of the territory.

In this context,

some thirty provinces of 12 autonomous communities will be at risk due to minimum temperatures

.

Teruel, Zaragoza, Burgos, León, Palencia, Salamanca, Valladolid, Zamora, Albacete, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Guadalajara, Toledo, Ourense, Murcia, La Rioja, Alicante, Castellón and Valencia will have yellow alert, while Cantabria, Madrid, Huesca, Navarra, Ávila, Segovia, Soria, Barcelona, ​​Girona and Lleida, with minimums of up to -10ºC.

Mallorca is at extreme risk due to accumulation of snow that could reach 40 centimeters in the Sierra de Tramontana

.

The thermal decrease will bring with it a

collapse of the snow levels in the northeast of the peninsula, which will affect the entire Peninsula on Monday

, causing practically all the precipitation that falls to be in the form of snow.

Huesca, Asturias, Cantabria, Burgos, Soria, Barcelona, ​​Lleida, Tarragona, Guipúzcoa, Navarra, Álava, Vizcaya, La Rioja

will be at risk from this phenomenon.

Snow in Barcelona

The snow has arrived on the Catalan coast at dawn and has left a

light white blanket in towns in the metropolitan area such as Gavà and Viladecans and in the upper neighborhoods of the city of Barcelona, ​​where it has covered the Tibidabo mountain and the Collserola mountain range

.

The Servei Meteorològic de Catalunya, Meteocat, has reported that at the moment the rain and snow continue in the central sector of the coast and pre-coastal and that throughout the morning the precipitations will be more local.

The snow, accompanied by a significant drop in temperatures

, has fallen in unusual areas of the Catalan geography,

especially in the upper parts of coastal towns such as Gavà and Viladecans, where it has left between 2 and 3 centimeters.

Towns such as

Terrassa, Begues, Matadepera, Els Pallaresos and La Selva del Camp have also been covered in white

, as well as Collserola, which has accumulated about 5 centimeters of snow, and Tibidabo in Barcelona, ​​where at the Fabra Observatory some 3 centimeters.

Around 8:30 a.m., it was still snowing in areas of the Camp de Tarragona and in some points in the Barcelona region of Anoia, such as Santa Margarida de Montbui.

Civil Protection of the Generalitat maintains the

alert of the Neucat Plan in view of the possibility that during the next few hours the light snowfalls will continue

on the coast and pre-coastal, especially in the Tarragona regions.

Given the forecast of snow, the Barcelona City Council has arranged checkpoint personnel in all areas of the city, with vehicles with snow equipment.

Extreme risk in Mallorca

In addition, the snowfall will cause a special situation in the Balearic Islands, which will be at extreme risk in Mallorca, focusing on the Sierra de Tramontana, where between Monday and Tuesday about 50 centimeters of snow may accumulate from 400 meters.

The Balearic Islands will also have a yellow alert for rain and orange for wind and waves.

Precisely,

the wind will also put Huesca, Teruel, Tarragona, Girona, Castellón and Melilla at risk,

which will also have a warning for coastal phenomena along with Tarragona, A Coruña and Castellón.

In Girona, the wave alert will be orange.

In general, this Monday cloudy or covered skies are expected in the Cantabrian area, upper Ebro, north of Iberia, east of the northern plateau, east of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, with generally weak rainfall, except in the Balearic Islands where they could be locally strong or persistent, and go with storms.

Also, cloudy intervals are expected in the rest of the northeastern half of the peninsula, without ruling out some light rain in mountainous areas, and little cloudy or clear in the rest.

In the

Canary Islands

, cloudy intervals with a probability of some weak precipitation on the islands of greater relief.

In addition, this Monday the wind will be moderate from the west in the Strait.

In the rest, wind from the north, with strong intervals on the northwestern coasts of Galicia, the Pyrenees, Ampurdán, the Balearic Islands and the mouth of the Ebro.

Tuesday and Wednesday

The storm of low temperatures, strong winds, snowfall and waves caused by the Juliette storm will continue on Tuesday, February 28, although a recovery of daytime temperatures is expected on this day.

Likewise, night temperatures will continue to drop in the southwestern half of the peninsula on Tuesday, extending the frosts to practically the entire Peninsula, except for coastal areas and the peninsular southwest.

As

of Wednesday, the aforementioned mass of cold air will begin to withdraw

and with it a gradual recovery in temperatures will take place.

At the same time, at higher levels, a drop will destabilize the environment in the north of the Peninsula and in the Mediterranean area.

According to the AEMET, it is likely that this episode of low temperatures will begin to subside on Thursday, March 2, although the minimums will present values ​​below normal, at least until the weekend.

Regarding the wind, it will gradually lose intensity from Tuesday, except in the Balearic Islands and northeastern Catalonia, where the Tramontana will intensify due to the storm.

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