Tailor-made weather to make the most of Easter holidays

BarcelonaAfter more than a week with a northerly wind corridor affecting our area, the meteorological situation will clearly improve just as the holidays and most important days of Easter begin. The mistral and tramuntana will still blow this Good Friday at the extremes, but they will be clearly declining and will no longer be news. A wind that will finally calm down completely by the weekend. The Azores anticyclone will finally embrace us, and absolute calm and radiant sun will prevail everywhere, with no more gusts or precipitation. Temperatures will clearly rise, with increasingly warm midday. All this after these last two days have once again exceeded 100 km/h in the Pyrenean peaks and in Empordà, while the last general snowfall in the Pyrenees has left more than half a meter of new snow at the high altitudes of Alt Pirineu and the north face. Newly fallen snow that will allow us to enjoy skiing to the fullest these days.

Good Friday: sun and less wind

The mistral and tramuntana winds will still blow strongly until the morning in the extremes, especially on the Pyrenean peaks –with blizzards– and in Empordà, where the rough sea will continue. But this strong wind will clearly decrease throughout the day, and will no longer be news. In fact, Meteocat only maintains a yellow alert for strong wind in the north of the Girona regions until the early hours of this Friday, as the situation will improve afterwards.

All in all with sun and calm in general on a day to take advantage of, only with decorative and local traces of thin clouds. The snowfall will also stop on the north face of the Pyrenees, where there will still be traces of cloud intervals and perhaps some weak and residual shower. Minimum temperatures may drop a little, with moderate morning cold and frost in the Pyrenees. But the maximums will rise clearly, especially in the Pyrenees and the Pre-Pyrenees. Mild atmosphere in the middle of the day, with many maximums of 17 °C to 23 °C, locally higher.

Radiant end of Easter Week

The weather will be very pleasant with radiant sun both on the weekend and on Easter Monday. A period of stability is beginning that will fully coincide with the most important days of Holy Week, when more people have holidays or vacations. A forecast that seems tailor-made after so many days of gales, snow, and temperatures under control.

Watch out for temperatures, as they will rise even further and the atmosphere will become increasingly warm at midday. We will even end up having values more typical of May than of early April. Many highs of 20 °C to 25 °C are expected, but in pre-coastal and inland areas these figures will eventually be surpassed, and locally 30 °C will be approached in Ponent and in the Ebro basin. Thermometers will be more restrained on the coast due to the influence of the sea, which is still cold.

All this with thermal contrast between day and night, as well as an increasingly marked thermal inversion, since in the coming days it will be colder early in the morning at low altitudes than at high altitudes. After Holy Week, instability seems to be able to return, so let's take advantage of these calm days.