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Weather warning: Spain puts 11 regions on alert for storms and high winds

Eleven of Spain’s regions were placed on alert on Thursday due to strong winds and intense rain from Storm Celia according to the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET).

Published: 17 March 2022 15:43 CET
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Spain on alert for storms. Photo: fiquetdidier1 / Pixabay

The areas at the greatest risk of storms are the coastal provinces of Galicia, including La Coruña and the coastal provinces in Valencia.

Asturias, Cantabria, the Basque Country, Murcia and the Balearic Islands have also been given a yellow warning.

All these areas have also been put on an orange warning for rainfall, which is expected to reach 100 liters per square metre in 12 hours in Valencia and Castellón.

Rain warnings have also been put in place for Alicante, Murcia, Almería, Albacete, Navarra and Guipúzcoa, which are expected to have up to 60 liters per square metre in 12 hours.

Strong winds of up to 70 kilometres per hour have also been forecast for these areas.

AEMET expects that the east of Spain will continue to be affected by storm Celia, but says that the Saharan dust or calima will begin to subside.  

READ ALSO – Weather in Spain: What is ‘calima’ and is it bad for you?

The haze will continue to affect the Peninsula, the Balearic Islands and the eastern Canary Islands, but it will be less intense AEMET reported. 

Unfortunately, the agency also predicts that the cloudy and rainy weather experienced by much of the north of the country for the past couple of weeks is set to continue. 

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Northern Spain braces for abnormally high spring tides

Spain’s northern regions, particularly Galicia and the Basque Country, are due to experience some of the highest spring tides in the past 19 years, causing gigantic waves, flooding and possible destruction to coastal structures.

Published: 19 September 2024 09:06 CEST
Northern Spain braces for abnormally high spring tides

Despite the name, spring tides occur throughout the year when the Moon is either new or full and when the Sun, Moon, and Earth are aligned and there is the greatest difference between high and low tide.

In Spanish they’re known as mareas vivas and occur here more frequently in September and March.

But on this occasion other factors have been added into the mix that will make these tides exceptionally high, even up to half a metre more than in previous years. And the same will happen with low tide, which will be abnormally low.

These factors include if the moon is closer than usual to the Earth or if it is above the Earth’s equator.

The climax of these conditions will be reached this Wednesday September 18th, coinciding with the full Moon, but the main impact of this won’t be felt until Thursday.

The phenomena is expected last at least until Friday and will rise the tides on practically the entire northern coast, with waves in some areas reaching a height of five metres.

The Marine and Food Research Center of the Basque Country (AZTI) has reported that this week, between this Tuesday and Friday, “exceptionally high” spring tides will be recorded in the Bay of Biscay, which will coincide, depending on the days, between 5 and 8pm.

The Basque towns of Zarautz, Pasaia and Irun have been put on yellow alert and could even experience waves close to five metres.

In Galicia, in the next couple of days, they could even experience the highest spring tides in the past 19 years.

The maximum predicted record will be reached in the Foz estuary in Galicia on Thursday September 19th around 6pm, when the high tide will reach a height of 4.6 metres.

In Ferrol and A Coruña, other strategic points on the Galician coast, it will be 4.4 metres, while in the estuaries of the Costa da Morte it will reach 4.3 metres, and in those of Vigo and Pontevedra waves will be an estimated at 4.2 metres.

Regions along the Cantabrian Sea such as Cantabria and Asturias will also be affected with bigger waves and higher tides than normal. While reports haven’t indicated predictions as high as the waves in Galicia and the Basque Country, people there still need to be on the lookout for high tides in the late afternoon and evening of Thursday.

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