A dozen autonomous communities This Wednesday they will have warnings of important risk (orange) or risk (yellow) due to coastal phenomena, wind or precipitation, according to the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) that anticipates that haze caused by dust in suspension continues to affect a good part of Spain.
Specific, the important risk due to coastal phenomena, with waves of 5 to 6 meters it will be activated for La Coruña, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and La Palma, while the warning for this phenomenon will be yellow for the rest of the Canary Islands, as well as on the coasts of the rest of Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria, the Basque Country, Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, the Valencian Community and Murcia.
On the other hand, the AEMET has activated the warning for rainswhich can accumulate up to 80 liters per square meter in 12 hours in Albacete, Malaga, Alicante and Castellón.
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Exposure to high levels of these particles causes irritation of the respiratory tract and lungs, increasing the risk of bronchitis, among other problems.
In general, this Wednesday the AEMET expects locally strong or persistent rainfall in the southern half of the peninsular mediterranean area and strong wind in Galicia, Levante, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands.
Time will continue to be conditioned by the presence of the atlantic storm celiapredictably located to the south of the Peninsula, which will lead to abundant cloudiness throughout Spain and unevenly distributed rainfall.
The most abundant will occur in the peninsular southeast third and they can become locally strong or persistent in the southern half of the peninsular Mediterranean area.
In the rest of the country, rainfall will be less likely and weaker and more scattered, and they are not expected in the south of the Canary Islands. In addition, a new Atlantic front will enter the peninsular northwest, so the cloudiness will increase there, with rainfall that will extend from Galicia to the Bay of Biscay, the upper Ebro and the western half of the Pyrenees.
In the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands the haze will continue and the rainfall may be accompanied by mud. Precipitation will be in the form of snow in the mountains of the southeast, from 2,000 meters down to 1,600 meters and in the western Cantabrian mountain range, from 1,400 meters although the level will drop to 1,000 meters.
Refering to temperatures, this Wednesday will drop again, except in the peninsular southwest, where they will tend to rise. The drop can be locally notable in Galicia, western Cantabrian and southeastern interior. The minimums will drop in the eastern half of the peninsula and will rise in the western third. In the Canary Islands, the thermometers will experience a slight rise.
Finally, about the wind, the AEMET expects it to blow moderate and west in the Strait and from the northeast in general in the rest of the country, with strong intervals on the Galician coast, the Levante coast, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands.