Extreme heat peak: last toll before a few more breathable days
The entire interior on alert this Thursday for highs of up to 40 ºC or more
BarcelonaAttention today because thermometers will skyrocket inland: a peak of extreme heat will occur, which will be especially pronounced in Ponent and the Ebro Valley, where maximums of between 41°C and 44°C may be reached. 40°C will also be registered in other inland areas. Meteocat has activated alerts for intense heat this Thursday throughout the interior, the Pyrenees, and the pre-Pyrenees, with a red alert – the highest possible – in Segrià and Ribera d’Ebre. Alerts are also maintained in the west for Friday.
Beware of this new torrid peak in thermometers. The coast will remain more on the sidelines of this rise, but the atmosphere will remain very warm and stuffy. From Friday onwards, the mercury will start to drop, and the decrease will be more noticeable between the weekend and the beginning of next week, when temperatures will finally normalize. The heat will be more bearable, and the nights more pleasant and cool. Therefore, the extreme heat of the next few hours will be the last toll to pay before the expected drop in thermometers.
Thursday: the heat is soaring
Nighttime temperatures have dropped and the atmosphere has been more comfortable or a bit cool outside the coast and pre-coast of Barcelona and Tarragona and the south of the country, where tropical and some torrid minimums have been repeated. On the other hand, maximums will soar inland, where many values will range between 37 °C and 42 °C. The most pronounced rise is expected in Ponent and the Ebro valley, where 43 °C or 44 °C can be reached locally. Extreme and suffocating heat also in the Pyrenees and Pre-Pyrenees, caution with the high temperatures.
On the coast, this rise will practically not be noticed, but it will continue to be very hot and muggy. All this with sun, suspended dust and perhaps some isolated afternoon shower in the Pyrenees or around the Ports.
Clear drop in thermometers
On Friday, temperatures will start to drop, but it will still be very hot everywhere. In fact, alerts for intense heat remain in the regions of Lleida, as temperatures will still hover around 40°C in Ponent and Conca de Tremp, or 35°C in the Pyrenees and pre-Pyrenees of Lleida. From the weekend onwards, the thermal drop will be very noticeable, especially inland.
It will be mainly between Sunday and the beginning of next week that thermometers will fully normalize. We can expect much more breathable days and cooler, more comfortable nights, especially away from the coast.
A heat situation more under control than we've had for many days, which we must take good advantage of, as everything indicates that by mid-next week temperatures will rise again above average. Beyond an increase in afternoon showers over the weekend, there are no significant rains in sight.