heavy rainfall and winds of up to 90 km/h are expected.

Despite the fact that this week has started with some stability throughout the Peninsula, the arrival of a squall high impact storm will change the situation from Wednesday onwards and especially on Thursday. These are Caetanothe third of this season with its own name after Aitor and Berenice. Although the reality is that it will remain restricted to the north and east of the peninsula, its effects will be felt in several regionsleaving heavy rainfall, strong sea storms and powerful gusts of wind.

As detailed in the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet).Caetano will leave rains from this Wednesday onwards in Galiciain the Cantabrian area and in the upper Ebro region, as well as in the Pyrenees and in the northeast of Catalonia. On this day there will be, in addition, snowfall in the most mountainous areas, especially in the Pyrenees, where the snow level will be located at 1,500 meters at the end of the day. In the Aran Valley may accumulate, in fact, more than five centimeters of new snow.

The wind will also be an important component during the whole day with very strong gusts that will exceed 80 km/h on the Cantabrian coast.but also in Aragon, Catalonia, Castellón y Balearic Islands. Especially strong will be in Tarragona, where these gusts may go up to 90 Km7h.

In the same way, the fog will be present in the morning in the interior of the Peninsula, in Castilla-La Mancha, Extremaduraand in some inland parts of Andalusia. The sea, on the other hand, will also leave waves of up to four or five meters in the Cantabrian Sea, but Andalusia will also activate the warnings for waves of up to three meters in Almeria, Grenada, Barcelona o Girona.

It will be on Thursday when the storm will become even stronger.with rainfall that will be even heavier in the north of the peninsula and will also reach other inland areas. In the afternoon, precipitation will become even heavier, especially in Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria y Basque Country. The Galician territory will be, thus, the area that will record more rainfall with accumulated rainfall exceeding 100 liters per square meter, although the accumulated rainfall in some areas of the Cantabrian and the Mediterranean will also be outstanding.

On Thursday, in addition, both snow and wind will continue to be important. The heights in the Pyrenees will be located at 1,600 meters and in the mountainous areas of the Bay of Biscay may drop to 1,400 or even 1,200 meters. This day will continue to be active warnings for strong gusts of wind in Galicia, in the north and east of Castilla y Leónat La Rioja, AragonCatalonia, Valencian Community, Balearic Islands and in Albacete. Also, strong winds will continue to cause large waves.

Caetano will move away on Friday

By Friday the situation will begin to change, with Caetano moving away to the east of Europe, so the wind and waves will begin to decrease. The rains, though, will spread in the morning towards the interior of the peninsula, although they will quickly stop and will not have much travel.

After the passage of Caetano, temperatures will drop this day in the north and frost may occur, especially in the Pyrenees area. There, snow levels will drop to 800-1000 meters. and may accumulate up to 30 centimeters of snow. Similarly, in the Cantabrian area will be located in the 1000-1400 meters.

However, this decrease in temperatures will only be noticed in the north of the peninsula, since in the rest of the country the maximum temperatures will be rising. With this, it is expected that facing the weekend the cold will go away and the thermal softness will return to prevail in the Peninsula. In spite of it, the weather will be variable and there will be enough cloudiness in all the territory, that will alternate with sunny spells and showers, although these scenarios are yet to be confirmed.