Alex Trelinski
A WEEKEND heatwave warning has been issued by the State Meteorological Agency(Aemet) with temperatures expected to exceed 40C in parts of Spain.
The fresh blast of hot air- the fourth official heatwave of the summer- will run between Friday and Sunday, but forecasters are not ruling out that it could run into next week.
Aemet says that the already high temperatures are expected to ‘continue to rise progressively in the coming days’.
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The biggest values are expected this Saturday with some areas possibly going as high as 42C.
Overnight temperatures might not drop below 25C in some regions.
An Aemet spokesperson said: “It is likely that on Friday temperatures will exceed 39C in the middle Ebro, Huesca, Lleida, the Guadalquivir valley, Granada, in central Spain and the Duero valley.”
“In the Tagus and Guadiana valleys it will reach 40C.”
Those areas are likely to get an extra couple of degrees on Saturday as the whole of the country is set to bake.
“It is likely that 34C will be exceeded in western Galicia while reaching 36C in the rest of the northern plateau, the interior of Catalunya, the north of the Valencian Community and the south of the Balearic Islands,” the spokesperson added.
For Sunday, meteorologists expect that a cooler Atlantic air mass start to enter the the western third of the Iberian Peninsula, although temperatures will remain unchanged.
With that in mind, forecasters have not ruled out the heatwave warning continuing to be active until Monday.
