Maldonado: "The weather is about to change, with a drop in temperatures and instability"

After an atypical week in October where the sun and the heat have occupied a good part of the weather forecast, starting this Saturday the situation changes again in the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, where it will be necessary to take out the umbrella and jacket again in the face of the rain and the drop in temperatures that will arrive in the next few hours, as warned by meteorologist José Antonio Maldonado.

"The abnormally high temperatures for mid-October in most of the peninsula have been the most significant aspect of the meteorological panorama. But the situation is about to change," said the director of Meteorology at Meteored in statements to the Herrera program at COPE.

The front that approached this Friday through the northwest of the peninsula will not only leave an increase in cloudiness, but also a drop in temperatures. In this way, instability "will increase" throughout this Saturday, Maldonado points out.

The reason lies in a trough in the upper layers and the passage of a front that "will move through the Cantabrian Sea and the Castilian-Leonese plateau and subsequently through large areas of the southern half." In addition to raining in these areas, rainfall "can be heavy" in Mediterranean regions such as "the easternmost half of Andalusia, in Catalonia" or also in the central system, according to Maldonado. In the Canary Islands "it may rain lightly," adds the expert.

In the case of thermometers, the drop will be noticeable and this Saturday there will be a "general drop in temperatures", where "30 degrees will only be reached in Córdoba and Seville."

As for the wind, this Saturday "it will blow strongly from the northeast in Galicia, the Cantabrian coast and Castilla y León", while there will be "moderate gales in the Ebro valley and the north wind in the Empordà and the Balearic Islands."

For this Sunday, "the atmosphere will continue to be unstable" and will affect "the entire Peninsula and the Balearic Islands", with precipitation "in numerous regions", although "less likely on the Atlantic slope", the meteorologist has clarified.

On the other hand, the rains will be abundant "in the southern half, the Mediterranean coasts and in the Balearic Islands, and may be of stormy origin and locally torrential," warns Maldonado. In the Canary Islands, for its part, "it could rain lightly on the islands of Gran Canaria and Tenerife."

Temperatures "will continue to drop" and there will no longer be a maximum that reaches 30 degrees. However, "there will be minimum temperatures between 3 and 5 degrees in the capitals of Castilla y León", where the atmosphere there will already be fully "autumn".

The winds will blow from the north and will do so "strongly" in Galicia, the Cantabrian regions and the Balearic Islands, while the easterly wind will be "moderate in the Strait and in the eastern half of Andalusia, especially in the Mediterranean area."