Eleven Autonomous Communities Enter Alert This Tuesday Due to Temperatures Reaching Up to 42ºC

This Sunday's respite has been nothing more than a brief pause before a new rise in mercury levels expected across almost the entire country. This Tuesday, warnings for high temperatures will be activated in eleven autonomous communities with peaks once again exceeding 40ºC in Córdoba and Badajoz, according to the forecast issued by the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) on Monday.

Specifically, this Tuesday will see yellow or orange alerts for high temperatures activated in provinces of Andalusia, Aragon, Castile and León, Castile-La Mancha, Catalonia, Extremadura, Galicia, the Community of Madrid, Navarre, La Rioja, and the Valencian Community. Notably, in the Cordoba countryside and Badajoz province, maximum temperatures could reach up to 42ºC.

This Monday comes with a preview where peaks of up to 40ºC are not ruled out in areas of the Guadiana Valley and Guadalquivir Valley. However, it is from Tuesday that a significant rise in mercury levels is expected. "Temperatures will generally increase this Tuesday except for some decreases in minimum temperatures along southeastern coasts and Menorca as well as the Cantabrian coast. Maximum temperatures will exceed 35ºC in much of the interior of the northern half and southern half of the peninsula, northeastern interior, northern plateau, and southern Galicia areas without ruling out southern and interior Canary Islands. Temperatures could surpass 40ºC in large areas of the southwestern quadrant of the peninsula," details Riesco.

According to Aemet, extreme temperatures on Tuesday are expected to reach up to 42ºC in Córdoba province, 41ºC in Badajoz, 40ºC in Huelva, Jaén, Seville, Ciudad Real, and Toledo; and 39ºC in Cáceres, Madrid, Ávila, Ourense, Cádiz, Granada, and Valencia.

For Wednesday, most of the country is expected to remain stable with clear skies. Only Galicia and the Cantabrian area will have a higher probability of cloudiness with possible light and scattered showers. A thermal rise is anticipated across most of the country but more pronounced in areas of Málaga and Cádiz. According to Riesco, "temperatures will exceed 35ºC in most of the interior southern half of the peninsula, northeastern interior, northern plateau areas, southern Galicia areas as well as southern and interior Canary Islands. Temperatures could likely reach 40ºC in large areas of the southwestern quadrant of the peninsula."

Aemet has also issued yellow alerts for coastal phenomena along Girona's Catalan coast as well as Mallorca and Menorca (Balearic archipelago) and Gran Canaria and Tenerife (Canary archipelago).