Will Hurricane Danielle reach Alicante?

Danielle – the first hurricane of the current cyclonic season – reports Rubén del Campo, spokesperson for the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet). it will weaken in the next few hours until it becomes a tropical cyclone due to cold waters and adverse weather conditions.

Forecasts indicate that next Friday and Saturday Danielle will move counterclockwise to the northwest of the Azores and It won’t be until next Sunday, September 11, when its remains reach the Iberian Peninsula. A spokesperson for Aemet said it had similar effects to “any deep autumn storm”.

In this way, the Danielle remnants will leave rains in the western half of the peninsula, as well as wind gusts exceeding 40 km/h in large areas of the peninsula, especially on the Galician coast and high mountain points. this week. or early next.

By the way, it will rain in Galicia this Wednesday and In the Mediterranean Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, it will be warm until it exceeds 36 degrees in the provinces of Valencia and Alicante.

Tomorrow is Thursday and next Friday Wet westerly winds will blow rain more weakly over western Galicia and the Cantabrian communities and the Pyrenees, as well as elsewhere in the northern half and around the Central System.

It will be sunny in the rest of the peninsula, with temperatures in the east tending to exceed 34 or 35 degrees in the Mediterranean, with the Balearic Islands and the southern thirds expected to reach a maximum of 38 degrees in Murcia on Friday; 36 degrees in Granada and Córdoba; It will stay below 34 degrees Celsius in Valencia or 31 degrees Celsius in Madrid and 25 degrees Celsius in La Coruña or Lugo.

Saturday: Rains in Galicia, Pyrenees and Catalonia

for him Saturday Aemet announced the possibility of rains extending to the Pyrenees in Galicia and locally strong storms in Catalonia; clearer skies to the south and slightly lower temperatures along the Mediterranean coast and slightly higher in the rest, especially in the central and southern half where they can exceed 34 or 36 degrees in the Guadalquivir valley.

On Sunday afternoon the 11th, the effects of ‘Danielle’s arrival in Spain will begin to be felt in Spain. strong winds and rains in the northwest turned into an Atlantic storm that would become more abundant in Galicia.

The storm will increase cloudiness over the rest of Spain, possibly leaving rain and high winds in the western half of the peninsula, with temperatures starting to drop in the northwest but rising in the eastern half.

Follow the extreme heat in Andalusia and the Mediterranean

So at the end of the week 34 degrees will be exceeded in the eastern Cantabrian Sea, southern Meseta, inland Andalusia and Mediterranean communities. In the Ebro and Guadalquivir valleys and in the Community of Valencia it can even exceed 36 degrees, while in Galicia the maximum will not exceed 20 or 22 degrees.

In the Canary Islands, the trade winds will blow with some strong winds in the most exposed areas and will blow the drizzle with greater relief in the north of the islands, while in the south the weather will be clear and temperatures will remain mild or gradually rise in the coming days.