The new year will begin this Monday, January 1, with general stability except for rains in the northwest of the peninsula and risk (yellow) or significant risk (orange) in the north due to coastal phenomena, according to the forecast of the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet).
Specifically, the waves will put Pontevedra on a yellow warning, while A Coruña, Lugo, Asturias, Cantabria, Guipúzcoa and Vizcaya They will be on orange alert for the same phenomenon, with waves that may reach up to seven meters.
Thus, this January 1, winds from the south and west are expected in the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, with the southwest predominating. These will be more intense in the northwest quadrant of the peninsula, even strong ones with very strong gusts on the coasts of northern Galicia and the western Cantabrian Sea. In the Canary Islands, variable light winds will predominate with a predominance of the easterly wind.
In general, on this day a new Atlantic frontal system is expected to penetrate the northwest of the Peninsula, leaving skies cloudy or covered and cloudiness that will increase in the rest of the northwest half.
In this way, precipitation is expected in Galicia and the western Cantabrian mountain range, more abundant in western Galicia, and it is not completely ruled out that, occasionally, it may extend to the north of the northern plateau, Eastern Cantabrian and Pyrenees. It is also not ruled out that precipitation will be in the form of snow in the mountains.