This Holy Week will be passed by water: From Monday to Wednesday (at least) from next week, rainfall will continue in much of the country and temperatures will lower.
The bourrasca Olivier will mark the time At the beginning of this Holy Week 2025: From Friday of Dolores to Palm Sunday it will rain in almost the entire country.
Next week the key days of the Easter week And the last update of the models indicates that At least from Monday until Wednesday the rains could continueyes, entering the peninsular northwest (and not by the south) and with the thermal descent included.
This year Traffic foresees 15.8 million displacements during Holy Week From this Friday and the rain will mark, at least, the road exit operation in large part of Spain.
Areas less affected by rain this ‘Holy Week’
Girona, Barcelona, South of Lleida, East Zaragoza, and coasts of Valencia, Castellón, Murcia and Almería. With the situation scheduled for the next few days, There will be no area in Spain that is free from rain At least until Palm Sunday. First with lto the borrasca Olivier y of thepthen with a troughlas rains are assured For the beginning of this Holy Week 2025.
Although the forecast suggests that no region of the country will be fought from the rain, Some areas will have weaker rains and scattered. We tell you which areas will be less affected by the rain.
The rains return to Spain. Borrasca Olivier has already left important rainfall in the Canary Islands and now the rains will reach the Peninsula and Balearic Islands. LA rain will begin to be more generalized and intense as of Friday, coinciding with the first operation of Holy Week 2025.
From Friday and especially during Saturday and Sunday, we will have showers in practically the entire territory
The history of rains that carries flashes for more than a month to Spain It seems yet to end. And it is that the saetas, the drums and the processions could be accompanied by more than one chapron.
A fact that will surely make many lift your hands to heaven, wishing that, with a little divine help, good weather and clear skies accompany most of Holy Week, which this year is celebrated from April 13 to 20.
The arrival of Olivierthe 15th storm that is located on the peninsula, raises a panorama marked by rains, cloudy skies and temperature drop this weekend. A situation that could be extended to the beginning of the one, as explained to RTVE.es the meteorologist of TVE Silvia Laplana. «They will be Storm days And from a decrease in the thermometers, although the latter will be progressive, ”he adds.
Today, Friday, we will have a decrease in thermometers and instability
Olivier’s main effects will begin to be noticed from Fridaywhen it is in the southwest of the Peninsula. The rains and storms that will accompany us during these days, as well as principles of Easter weekwill affect southern Andalusia, Galicia, west of Asturias and the west of the plateau. Although, especially, in the Western Central System Environment.
The Orange alert will be active in Andalusia And the yellow in Asturias, Castilla y León, Castilla-La Mancha, Extremadura, Galicia and Melilla For storms and strong waves. A wave that will have a greater prominence in the surroundings of Cádiz, as well as in the Mediterranean coastlines of the Southeast.
With the departure from the storm of Canary Islandsinstability will go to less, even if the scattered showers will remain. The Calima will extend to the Most of the Peninsula and Baleareswith older ones concentrations in the south and east, along with precipitation in mud.
“The Greater descent in the thermometers It will be noticed this Friday, especially in the Atlantic aspectalthough with increases in the Cantabrian, Pyrenees and areas of the southeast, ”says Laplana. As an example, in cities like Cáceres they will pass from 23 ° C to 17 ° C, or in Ourense of the 28 ° C at 19 ° C.
And in ‘Holy Week’?
Therefore, atmospheric instability invites a not -so -forecast If we talk about the time of Early Weekwhich will be marked by the rainfall and low temperatures.
The approach of Olivier It will become more evident during the Saturdaycon crazyly strong showers and storms In good part of the Peninsula. “The rains They will concentrate on the Center, west and south, With some shower still in the Canary Islands, ”says Laplana. However, the Probability will be lower in it This and Northeastas in Whaarse. The accumulations will be more significant in the peninsular western half.
In the Canary Islands, the remains of Borrasca will continue to feel, although with moderate or locally strong intensity.
Las temperatureswhich began to fall from Friday, They will stabilize On Saturday. The maximums increase lightly on the northern plateau and more intensely in the Eastern Peninsular and Balearic Islands, the interior promotions being located.
They descend in the rest of the Peninsula, being able to reach the descents in Galicia.
“The thermal anomaly that we live this Friday will be reduced on Saturday with more normal values for the time, except in the north, where slightly higher temperatures will still be maintained,” adds Laplana. He wind It will continue from the east strong in the Strait and Alborán.
Olivier’s departure to the north and the entrance to the west peninsular of high pressures will leave a situation of great instability the Palm Sunday. Las rains will continue to win prominencebeing especially intense and accompanied by storm in the northeast peninsular.
In the Canary Islands, cloudy intervals with occasional weak rainfall in northern islands are planned.
Los thermometers continues going down in the Cantabrianalthough more notable in the eastern half, in the Balearic Islands and in the east and south of Castilla y León and without changes in the rest. Winds will blow loose to moderate and southwest on the Peninsula and Balearic Islands.
Umbrella for ‘Holy Week’?
He Monday and Holy Tuesday A situation is expected very similar to that of the weekend. Specifically, showers and storms are expected with greater probability and intensity in the North and Southeast peninsular half.
Less likely will be the rains in the southwest. The wind will proceed from the west or southwest, loose on Sunday and with strong gusts on the Galician coast. Day temperatures will continue to decrease, with values close to the usual ones. In the Canary Islands, moderate showers are expected.
Although the beginning of Holy Week will be marked by the rainit cannot still be assured that the rest of the week follows the same trend. However, the recent prediction of the State Meteorology Agency (Aemet) points to possible rainfall until Holy Thursday.
These will be most likely in the northwest half peninsular and less in the Mediterranean area. Temperatures could go down again, until values below the usual. In the Canarian archipelago, Alisios and no rainfall are foreseen.
From Holy Thursdaythe most likely scenario, although with a lot of uncertaintyindicates one Generalized decrease in instability and temperature recovery.
However, there is still a probability of rainfall in the northwest peninsular third. More uncertain will be the situation during the “fat” days of Holy Weekalthough the forecasts will be updated as they approach.
‘Holy Week’: Bad eye?
The umbrella, delays and covered virgins have become a common image when this holiday arrives.
At this time it is normal to rain, as Laplana explains: «The spring is very unstable. However, it is also true that, since Holy Week has no fixed dates, it is never exactly the same date, so you cannot make exact statistics.
The meteorologist details that this period of the year is quite unstable and changing, especially in terms of temperatures, «That they can go up and down. We are within the norm ».
On the stroke of Borrascas, Laplana emphasizes that this year we are in a situation similar to last year. “It is not that more storms have been given, but that they have been very often”concludes, which could be influencedalthough in the absence of future attribution investigations, to climate change.