After many days of calm and weather that is too warm for the time of year, the weather will become complicated this weekend. The anticyclone will move to northern Europe and, at the same time, a storm will form in the Mediterranean. All this will open the doors to the arrival of a pocket of cold air at high altitude coming from central Europe towards the Iberian Peninsula, as well as humid and warm maritime winds towards the Catalan coast. This will clearly increase instability, with the return of rain and a sudden, full autumn atmosphere. The sea water remains warmer than it should be, which can cause the rainfall to be more intense, just as it has been in recent weeks.

The weather will undergo a radical change in the coming days. The arrival of a mass of very cold air of Arctic origin will cause temperatures to plummet throughout the week. Each day the mercury will drop further, and by midweek, thermometers will register between 5 and 10 degrees lower than usual for this time of year. This cold, wintry weather has arrived earlier than usual this year, with more than a month still to go before winter officially begins. Aemet (the Spanish State Meteorological Agency) has already issued an advisory warning of this cold spell.

The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) announced on Monday that, from now on, The most intense and potentially dangerous DANAs (isolated depressions at high levels) would be given their own names., as is already the case with the most powerful storms. And the first one wasn't long in coming, as the agency announced the formation of DANA in the coming days. Alice.