The snow and wind storm already forces the use of chains on some routes in the Pyrenees

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  • A total of 25 provinces will be on Wednesday alert for wind, avalanches, waves and snow, whose elevation drops to 500 meters

  • The bridge traffic return operation registers, at mid-morning on Wednesday, the first retentions on the C-16

The snow that has started to fall this morning with intensity in the Pyrenees and the strong wind that blows strongly in the Empordà, Terres de l’Ebre and also in the Pyrenean mountain range are beginning to complicate circulation on Catalan roads this wednesday in full operation return of the festive bridge. The Catalan Traffic Service reports that they are already there mandatory strings at the entrances to Pla de Beret (Val d’Aran) and to travel the 15 kilometers that separates La Molina (Cerdanya) from Castellar de N’Hug (Berguedà).

The return home of those who have spent these days in the mountains have registered, already at midmorning, some withholdings on the C-16, Cercs and Urús, where small queues of vehicles have formed at the moment.

On Tuesday afternoon there were also traffic jams on this same road, which connects La Cerdanya with the metropolitan area of ​​Barcelona. Given the forecast of widespread bad weather in the northern half of the peninsula, the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) requested on Monday that the return be early in order to avoid risky situations.

Wind, snow and avalanches

Although the warnings also have the regions of Empordà on alert, the most intense gusts of wind in Catalonia have been registered, for now, in the observatories of Port del Comte (Solsonès), with a gust of up to 76 kilometers per hour, and in El Vendrell (Baix Penedès), where a gust of wind of up to 74 kilometers per hour has been detected.

A total of 25 provinces are on alert this Wednesday due to wind, snowfall, avalanches and waves, according to the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) which places the snow between 500 and 1,000 meters in the Cantabrian Mountains, Pyrenees, Northern Iberian System and between 600 / 1,000 meters in the Central System. Specifically, nine provinces are on an orange alert (significant risk). Burgos, Palencia and León are due to snowfall; while in Vizcaya, Cantabria, Asturias, Lugo, A Coruña and Pontevedra it has been activated by coastal phenomena.

In addition, there is a yellow alert (risk) due to snowfall in Ávila, Segovia, Soria, La Rioja, Burgos, Álava, Guipúzcoa (also due to waves), León, Orense, Zamora, Lugo, Cantabria and Asturias. Likewise, Lleida, Huesca and Navarra are at risk due to snow and avalanches, while Madrid, Murcia and Albacete the warning is due to wind, and Almería and Granada, due to wind and coastal phenomena.

Afternoon showers

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In the second half of the day they are probable showers in the Empordà and the Balearic Islands, with the possibility of occasional storms. In the Canary Islands, the skies will remain cloudy with the probability of scattered rainfall in the north of the islands of greater relief.

The temperatures will drop appreciably and generalized in the Peninsula, even with a notable decrease in the northwest, Cantabrian and southeast mountains. Frosts are expected in the mountainous systems of the northern and southeastern half and, in isolation, in moorlands, more intense in the Pyrenees; and without major changes in the archipelagos.



Reference-www.elperiodico.com

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