Updated Thursday, February 8, 2024-08:11
Meteorology Check the weather forecast throughout Spain
The
Karlotta storm
has activated the warnings in half of Spain this Thursday due to strong wind, rain and adverse coastal phenomena, with special incidence in
Galicia, Asturias, Castilla y León, Cantabria and La Rioja
, where there is an orange alert for gusts of up to 110 km/h, Aemet reports on its website.
Galicia, the community most exposed to the storm, has
an orange level
(significant risk) due to maximum gusts of 100 km/h with winds from the south and southwest, due to rains that will leave an accumulated precipitation of 80 liters per square meter in 12 hours and due to combined southwestern sea with waves of 5 to 7 meters.
On the Cantabrian coast, Asturias and Cantabria continue with orange warnings for gusts of up to 110 km/h in points of the Cantabrian mountain range, the Mining Valley, southwestern Asturias, Liébana and in Cantabria del Ebro.
La Rioja
will also be affected by winds from the south and southwest that will rise to 100 km/h in parts of the Iberian Rioja region.
In
Castilla y León,
only the provinces of Burgos and Palencia are under orange alert for maximum wind gusts that will range between 90-100 kilometers per hour; In the rest of the community there is a yellow alert for winds between 70 and 90 km/h and in Ávila for rains that will leave 40 liters per square meter in 12 hours.
In Andalusia (Almería, Cádiz and Huelva), Aragon, Castilla-La Mancha (Cuenca, Guadalajara and Toledo), Catalonia (Girona and Lleida), Extremadura, Community of Madrid, Region of Murcia, Navarra and in the Basque Country the
yellow warning
(risk) due to strong waves or winds that will rise to 70-90 km/h.
Aemet
warns that with the orange alert there is a significant meteorological risk, with a certain degree of danger for usual activities, and with the yellow alert there is no meteorological risk for the general population, although there is for some specific activities.