Last heatwave: the end of the worst part of summer is already in sight
The temperatures will peak before the weekend and reach 40°C or more, but afterwards they will clearly go down
BarcelonaWe 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. The clear sky has been predominant and has allowed us to enjoy this unique spectacle, although cloud intervals have been a bit of a nuisance, especially in parts of the Pyrenees, pre-Pyrenees, and nearby areas, where the showers have clearly decreased compared to yesterday. Once this exceptional event has passed, what weather awaits us in the coming days? Well, between Thursday and Friday, temperatures will reach their peak and we will experience a new scorching heatwave, with suffocating conditions. But everything seems to indicate that this 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 it will cool down more and the heat will be clearly more bearable and normalized for the second half of August.
Thursday: more heat
Thermometers will rise even further this Thursday. The night will be warm and stuffy in much of the coast, pre-coast, and southern half of the country, but tropical lows will also be recorded in other inland areas. As for the highs, many will range between 35 and 40 °C in the pre-coast and inland, with the highest values in Ponent and the Ebro valley, where these figures may be exceeded until Friday.
Suffocating atmosphere everywhere, and very stuffy near the sea. Meteocat maintains alerts for night heat on the central coast and the coast of Tarragona, and for intense daytime heat in Ponent and the Ribera d'Ebre.
All in all with strong radiant sun in the morning and only some low local clouds on the coast. In the afternoon, cloudiness will increase again, leaving some irregular showers or some local thunderstorms in parts of the Pyrenees and Pre-Pyrenees which may occasionally reach the north of Ponent or Central Catalonia. Some will also fall in the Ports area and in the interior of the Valencian Country. Elsewhere, calm will continue, with more sun than clouds.
The light at the end of the tunnel
Friday will once again be a suffocating day and thermometers will even reach their peak in some regions. But it will be the last peak of extreme heat, as the maps already predict the end of this eternal exceptionally hot summer. The weekend will begin to experience a drop in thermometers, but it will be next week when the mercury will normalize and the heat will be much more moderate and bearable.
The nights will be more pleasant and during the day the feeling of heat will be less pronounced. A normalization of temperatures that will be accompanied by an increase in instability. Showers and storms will gain ground in many regions. We will keep updating and following all of this with great attention.