Spain Weekend Weather - Friday December 17 2010

A cold weekend with temperatures below zero in many parts of the country today.

The intense cold seen by most of the country for the past three days will start to ease today, but even so the weekend before Christmas will be very cold in the north and centre of the country.
The snow line is down to just 200-500m in the north of the country.

In the south as the temperatures rise, the rain returns to the extent that there could be local flooding in Cádiz and Huelva.
Wednesday night saw -12.3 degrees at the Navacerrada ski resport on Madrid and it was just – 6.3 in Villanueva de los infants in Ciudad Real.
Despite the cold continuing in the centre and north of the country today, there are no alerts in place from the Spanish Meteorological Agency.

NW winds, weak to moderate in the NE of the mainland and on the Baleares where there will be strong intervals.
Levante strong winds in the Strait, weakening during the day.
SW strong winds on the Canaries, with gale force gusts.

Temperatures
A Coruña 12 8
Albacete 7 -4
Alicante/Alacant 14 3
Almería 16 6
Ávila 5 -5
Badajoz 11 -2
Barcelona 12 6
Bilbao 8 3
Burgos 2 -4
Cáceres 10 -3
Cádiz 15 7
Castellón de la Plana/Castelló de la Plana 13 1
Ceuta 16 11
Ciudad Real 9 -3
Córdoba 11 0
Cuenca 7 -4
Girona 11 0
Granada 14 -4
Guadalajara 7 -7
Huelva 13 3
Huesca 6 -1
Jaén 10 -2
Las Palmas 24 17
León 4 -5
Lleida 8 -1
Logroño 6 -1
Lugo 9 1
Madrid 6 -3
Málaga 17 5
Melilla 17 7
Murcia 13 2
Ourense 11 1
Oviedo 8 3
Palencia 3 -4
Palma de Mallorca 14 2
Pamplona 4 0
Pontevedra 10 4
Salamanca 7 -4
San Sebastián 7 4
Santa Cruz de Tenerife 23 18
Santander 9 4
Segovia 6 -4
Sevilla 13 4
Soria 4 -5
Tarragona 12 1
Teruel 9 -4
Toledo 8 -4
Valencia 15 4
Valladolid 6 -3
Vitoria 3 -4
Zamora 7 -3
Zaragoza 8 -1


Outlook
Rain this weekend in the Canaries and Andalucía, starting on the islands today, moving up into the Cádiz Bay on Saturday from where they will reach most of Andalucía. The rain will extend to the southern half of the country on Sunday.