No, no, no… We multiply like Dr. No's clones. He ends up winning and James Bond is condemned to live in a prison tent, a PVC dungeon, or a nylon cell. The Nos are now starting New Year's Eve. Amidst the drunken congratulations. Casually, but they mean it, in those emotional, liquid, pathetic, failed hours: do you know of any flats for the boy, the girl, or the marsupial?

Saturday morning thunderstorms discharged strongly offshore and those that hit land left intense downpours. In Baix Penedès, it discharged with great intensity and the showers were torrential. In El Vendrell, for example, they accumulated 146 l/m², 137 l/m² in Torredembarra and 109 l/m² in Calafell.

We are starting a stormy Saturday, but not throughout the territory. Thunderstorms are discharging strongly offshore and are reaching land. In fact, heavy showers and intense thunderstorms are expected between the central coast and the Costa Daurada. These showers will be intense and can accumulate 30 mm in just under half an hour, with significant accumulations, which have already reached up to 100 mm in a few hours. In Baix Penedès, it has discharged with great intensity and the showers have been torrential. In El Vendrell, for example, they have accumulated 129 mm and 113 mm in Torredembarra.

Tourism has become a key sector for the Catalan economy, with a contribution of over 12% of the gross domestic product (GDP). The attractiveness of this territory, and especially of Barcelona, is not diminished by the heatwaves that have occurred in recent weeks or by the increased cost of airline tickets and transport in general. In fact, visitors from other countries are the ones that have grown the most, with almost 2.7 million in July, a figure that represents an increase of 2.5% compared to the same period last year and a new record in the historical series, which collects data since 1999. As the data evolves, everything seems to be on track to set a real record, which would place Spain at 100 million tourists this year. Catalonia, with Barcelona as the main pole of attraction, receives around a third of the total foreign visitors.

The approach of a cold air trough at high altitude has generated significant atmospheric instability and has already contributed to a drop in temperature. The strong contrast between the cold air at high altitude and the warm Mediterranean mass generated powerful clouds and the storms discharged with force, with some downpours and violent phenomena, such as strong gusts of wind, hail and sleet. The most affected regions were the central coast, the pre-coast and the northeast, with violent phenomena in Anoia, Alt Penedès, Baix Llobregat and the two Vallesos. You can follow the episode at this link:

The heat has ended with the arrival of a cold air mass. Temperatures of 40°C will no longer be repeated and the thermometer will drop, but this will be from tomorrow, with a noticeable cooling in high altitudes and inland, especially on Friday and over the weekend. On the coast, this Thursday, we will still suffer from sultriness due to increased humidity and a cloudier sky.

The heat will still be intense, especially in the interior of the country, where it will exceed 39°C again and could reach up to 40°C in the Lleida plain and the interior of the Ebro valley (and we will already have more than twenty days with such extreme values). The meteorological situation offers no respite regarding temperature due to the warm air mass from North Africa.

The heat will continue to be intense, especially in the interior of the country, where temperatures will again exceed 38°C in the Lleida plain or in the interior of the Ebro valley. The meteorological situation offers no respite in terms of temperature due to the warm air mass coming from North Africa. This dry tropical mass will again generate temperatures above average and will cause heat peaks of up to 40°C in Ponent and Ebre between Tuesday and Thursday. In fact, we have already had 19 days in Catalonia with temperatures equal to or higher than 40°C.

The weekend has been marked by quiet mornings and unstable afternoons, with locally intense showers and thunderstorms that in some cases have left more than 50 or 60 mm. Good news after a very dry July and early August in a large part of the territory. The temperature has also relaxed practically everywhere, although intense heat has been maintained on the coast. Next week will begin with increasingly intense heat, but from the middle of the week a change in weather will arrive that will lower the temperature and leave more widespread precipitation.

Catalonia now has double the forests it had in the 1950s – the forest area has gone from 35% of the territory to almost 65% – and the fires of recent weeks — the last one this Friday in Collserola — and a legislative plot twist have strongly reopened a debate that already existed in the sector: on whom should the responsibility fall – and in whose name should the bill go – for maintenance? Currently, only 30% of forests are managed, meaning that active work is being done on them, such as logging, undergrowth clearing, or new plantings. In this context, a small change in a discreet article has revolutionized the sector. As the ARA explained a few months ago, Royal Decree-Law 21/2025, which obliged owners to maintain the land in condition and empowered the administration to do so at a cost – meaning, passing the bill to the owner – mutated during the parliamentary process and went from "obliging" to simply requesting "collaboration." A direct request from the forestry sector.

The mercury has relaxed across the board after a few days of intense heat and this Saturday it reached 36°C or 37°C where it climbed the most. Normal values for the season that suggest a cooling down because we are coming from very high temperatures. Storms were also the protagonists during Saturday afternoon and evening in many places, especially in the northern half and the center of the country, where they were locally accompanied by hail. Notable are the 50 mm accumulated in Artés, in Bages, the 34 mm in Sant Pau de Segúries, in Ripollès, and the 33 mm in Gisclareny, in Berguedà. On Sunday afternoon, instability will already be decreasing and less extensive and intense showers will form.

This Friday the atmosphere was again very suffocating, with many highs of 35°C to 40°C even in coastal areas, but with higher values in Ponent and the Ebro valley, such as 41.5°C in El Canós (Segarra), 41.3°C in Vinebre (Ribera d'Ebre) or 41°C in Lleida and Alcarràs (Segrià) and Tàrrega (Urgell). They also brushed against 40°C on the Barcelona pre-littoral. Such extremely high temperatures will not be repeated this weekend, with thermometers dropping. We are coming from so high that the heat of full summer will continue, but it will be less intense and far from 40°C. All this with an increase in instability. Showers and storms will gain ground and intensity, mainly in the pre-littoral, inland and in the Pyrenees. But these showers could reach some coastal areas. No such extreme heat episode is foreseen in the medium term and by the end of next week the atmosphere will be much more bearable.

Attention this Friday because the torrid peak of this new episode of intense heat that is again affecting a large part of Western Europe will occur. Many regions - most of the country - are on orange or yellow alert for extreme temperatures. Towards the plain of Lleida or the Ebro valley, temperatures will reach or exceed 40°C, while in most of the country, between 35 and 40ºC will be recorded, with very marked sultriness near the sea. Suffocating day.

It is the astronomical event of the century in Catalonia. Although visibility has not been complete throughout the territory, Wednesday's eclipse has left spectacular images around the world. We review some of the most curious moments and the most unique scenes that the phenomenon has left.

We leave behind a historic Wednesday at home due to the solar eclipse, which was total or slightly partial depending on the area of the country. Clear skies dominated most of the territory during the event and allowed us to enjoy this unique spectacle, although cloudy intervals were a nuisance, especially in parts of the Pyrenees, pre-Pyrenees, and nearby areas, such as the northeast. Once this exceptional event has passed, what weather awaits us in the coming days? Well, between Thursday and Friday, temperatures will hit their peak, and there will be a new torrid spell with suffocating conditions. But everything seems to indicate that it will be the grand finale of the worst part of the summer, as from the weekend the thermometers will begin to drop and instability will increase. Next week, the heat will be clearly more bearable and normalized for the second half of August.

The most anticipated day of this 2026 is here. Millions of people will enjoy this Wednesday evening the historic eclipse of the Sun, which will be total in the southern regions of Catalonia, in all of the Balearic Islands, and in a large part of the Valencian Country. A unique and exceptional phenomenon marked on the agenda for some time. Everything is ready to enjoy this spectacle, but only clouds could spoil it. And it is that in some regions, there will be concern until the last moment due to the presence of clouds that may interfere with seeing the sky clearly. It should be said, however, that in most of the territory the phenomenon can be seen without problems.

The weekend has been marked by calmer weather than in previous days, although instability continued to be the protagonist of the afternoon in some regions, especially on Saturday, when showers and thunderstorms in the Pyrenees, pre-Pyrenees and the regions of Ponent left, locally, more than 50 or 60 l/m² and wind gusts of 100 km/h.

For those of us who are passionate about traveling, you'll recognize us from afar. We are the ones who save pins on digital maps as if they were treasures, the ones who have folders full of screenshots of exotic corners, and the ones who feel butterflies in our stomachs every time Friday approaches. We love the feeling of adventure, of treading on landscapes that seem from another planet, of filling our eyes with unforgettable places, and of discovering new ways of understanding life. The world is immense, fascinating, and full of places that change your life.

The weekend began with calmer weather than in previous days, although instability was still the protagonist of Saturday afternoon in some regions, with showers and thunderstorms in the Pyrenees, pre-Pyrenees, and the regions of Ponent which locally left more than 50 or 60 mm and wind gusts of 100 km/h. In the rest, however, the weather became very calm and warm again, with intense heat near the coast. The situation will be repeated for Sunday, when the heat could strengthen a bit more to the detriment of the showers, which will already be more localized.