Ten communities on alert for rain and wind this Friday due to the Karlotta storm

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Updated Friday, February 9, 2024-08:17

The passage of

an active Atlantic front

associated with

Storm Karlotta

maintains this Friday warnings for rain, wind or rough seas in 10 autonomous communities, Ceuta and Melilla.

The umbrella will be necessary throughout the peninsula and the Balearic Islands, and the heaviest rains are expected in Galicia, the Pyrenees of Huesca, the Central System, a large part of Andalusia and areas of Ciudad Real. The winds will intensify on the coast of Galicia, the Cantabrian Sea, Andalusia, the coasts of the southeastern peninsula, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands.

The prediction of the

State Meteorological Agency

(

Aemet

), collected by Servimedia, indicates that there is an orange warning - significant risk - until 9:00 a.m. due to strong gusts of 90 km/h and waves of four to six meters on the coast of Cádiz, as well as as well as waves of four to six meters in Huelva.

The rest of the warnings are

yellow level

-risk-, including some due to rough seas in A Coruña, Alicante, Almería, Ceuta, Girona, Granada, Huelva, Málaga, Melilla, Murcia, Pontevedra and the Balearic islands of Mallorca, Ibiza and Formentera.

In addition, there is

a yellow warning for gusts of 70 to 80 km/h

in places in Albacete, Almería, Cádiz, Ceuta, Córdoba, Granada, Jaén, Murcia, Seville, as well as Mallorca, Ibiza and Formentera.

And the risk of heavy or persistent rain affects Ávila and Salamanca (Central System and south), Badajoz (south), Cáceres (north, Villuercas and Montánchez), Cádiz (the entire province), Huesca (Pyrenees), Málaga (Ronda, Costa del Sol and Guadalhorce riverbed), Pontevedra (Rías Baixas and interior) and Seville (Campiña).

On the other hand, the front linked to

Storm Karlotta

will keep a large part of Spain under clouds and with widespread rain, although weaker in the Mediterranean area.

The Canary Islands will have cloudy skies and probable weak rainfall in the western islands and the western part of the eastern islands.

Temperatures will drop in the eastern half of the peninsula and

the

Balearic Islands. It will be warmer in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Santa Cruz de Tenerife (26 degrees), and Valencia (21), and less in León (10) and Ávila, Burgos, Huesca, Lugo, Palencia and Segovia (11).

Finally, this Friday moderate winds will blow from the southwest in most of the country, turning northwest in Galicia, the Cantabrian Sea and the Canary Islands.