Snow and rain return Spain to the middle of winter

EFE Madrid

Madrid

Updated Saturday, March 2, 2024-18:08

The almost widespread snowfall and rain have returned the country to the middle of winter in the first weekend of March and all the autonomous communities and Melilla have woken up today on

alert due to this rainfall

, the strong gusts of wind or the intense waves in coastal areas.

Segovia is one of the provinces that have been affected by an intense snowfall that has covered both the roads and the streets in white since the early afternoon, affecting not only the normal development of traffic but also the normal activity of the city. , which welcomes a good number of visitors on weekends.

Thus, the sports activities that were to be held in the city were suspended due to the snow that covered the sports facilities, and the celebration of the Second RFEF league match that must face Gimnástica Segoviana on Sunday afternoon with the CD Guadalajara.

Despite the intensity of the snowfall, the only Segovian road at the yellow level in the middle of the afternoon was the A-1 from kilometers 135 to 98, with the snow plows operating on the AP-61, which connects Segovia with Madrid, as well as in the ports of Navacerrada and Cotos.

Salamanca has also seen its land dyed white today.

The person responsible for the instability is a powerful Atlantic front that is crossing the country from

northwest to southeast

and that leaves in its wake completely covered skies and widespread rainfall throughout the peninsula, in addition to low, although not extreme, temperatures.

In the

center of the peninsula today the maximum temperatures will be around 10 degrees

, although in the provinces of the Mediterranean coast these values ​​will rise to 20 degrees, and the minimums that were recorded last morning and that will be repeated next night have only dropped by zero in Burgos, León and Palencia.

Rain

, snowfall, waves and strong wind

hit the country after several days of flooding in the northern third due to the flooding of some rivers, and especially the Ebro as it passes through the communities of Navarra, La Rioja and Aragón , although the situation is tending to normalize. The crest of the flood has already surpassed the main cities and riverside towns and has reached the Mequinenza reservoir in Zaragoza, so the Government of Aragon has decided to lower the emergency level (from one to two ) and the troops of the Military Emergency Unit (UME) who have collaborated in the area in recent days have demobilized.

The

Ulibarri

reservoir in Alava continues today, for the third consecutive day, releasing water - about 39 cubic meters per second - but no problems or flooding have been reported on the banks of the Zadorra River into which the waters of this reservoir are poured. And The Ebro Hydrographic Confederation has concluded the episode of Ebro floods recorded in recent days in the community of La Rioja and all the stations that measure capacity are recovering normal values.

The copious snowfalls are not currently hindering traffic on the main road network, although they have caused some closures on secondary roads in the communities of Asturias and in the community of Aragón. Before the weather forecasts planned for today, all the autonomous communities and the city of Melilla have woken up today with "orange" (significant risk) or "yellow (risk) alerts due to snowfall, heavy rain, strong gusts of wind or strong waves.

In seven communities

(Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Galicia, Cantabria, Castilla y León and Madrid)

the warnings are at a "yellow" level (significant risk) due to snowfall in some cases and the strong waves that will be recorded. on the coast in others. The most significant snowfalls that have motivated the activation of meteorological alerts are recorded in the communities of Aragón, Asturias, Cantabria, Castilla y León, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia, Galicia, Madrid, Navarra and The Rioja.

In most cases, snowfall will be recorded at high levels, around 1,000 meters, although it will drop to 700-800 meters in many places, according to data from the State Meteorological Agency. Due to strong winds Alerts have been activated in the communities of Andalusia, Aragon, Castilla y León, Castilla-La Mancha, Extremadura, Madrid, La Rioja, the Canary Islands and the Valencian Community, in anticipation of very strong gusts of up to 80 kilometers per hour. , in many places.

Rainfall will be widespread throughout practically the entire country, and the most important will be recorded, according to Aemet forecasts, in the communities of Aragon, Asturias, Galicia and Catalonia, with accumulations of up to 40 liters per square meter in twelve hours in some areas. And the expected strong waves have also motivated meteorological alerts to be activated due to this phenomenon in the communities of Andalusia, Asturias, the Balearic Islands, Cantabria, Catalonia, Galicia, Murcia, the Basque Country and in the autonomous city of Melilla.