Podemos has announced to its workers the opening of an employment regulation file (ERE) which provides for the closure of nine of its territorial delegations and the dismissal of at least half of its workforce, as a result of the loss of institutional representation in the regional elections on May 28 and in the general elections on July 23.

This was announced by the party in a letter dated July 24 (the day after the general elections) sent to its employees, according to El Periódico de España and to which Europa Press has had access..

In it, Podemos assumes that it is facing “a new scenario” after the two electoral appointments that, in addition to the loss of political weight, supposes a significant reduction in income. Specifically, it reveals that an “initial assessment” of the situation places losses at 70% at the state level and approximately 90% in the territories.

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This leads the party to announce the termination of contracts and the closure of work centers in nine autonomies —Aragon, Asturias, the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, Castilla-La Mancha, Cantabria, Galicia, Madrid and the Valencian Community—; in addition to a reduction in staff at its headquarters.

Podemos underlines the reduction of seats in the autonomous parliaments and in the Cortes Generales as justification for a “profound reorganization of the party in all areas” to adapt “to the decrease in resources that this implies”.

“This reduction in income entails the unavoidable need to adapt expenses of all kinds to them, including labor, which, in the case of the affected territories, will imply the termination of contracts and the closure of work centers and , in state, a reduction of the staff”, announces.

With this, the party announces the opening of the ERE “for economic, technical and organizational reasons”.

As detailed in the letter, the ERE will affect a total of 45 dependent workers from the nine territorial centers that will be closed (five in Aragon, seven in Asturias, eight in the Balearic Islands, six in the Canary Islands, four in Castilla-La Mancha, one in Cantabria, three in Galicia, four in Madrid and seven in the Valencian Community). Podemos also has 61 employees at the state level, 57.55 percent of its total workforce, who will also suffer a significant reduction.

The party now opens a negotiation process that will be led by the Organization Secretariat led by the elected deputy Lilith Vestrynge. “The Organization remains at the disposal of the compañeras and compañeros with the conviction that among all of us we will be able to find the best solutions to promote our organization again, at the regional and state level, with the certainty that continuing to conquer rights is possible. “, claims the purple formation.

Only five deputies in Congress

On 23-J, Podemos stood for the elections under the umbrella of Sumar led by Yolanda Díaz, who won a total of 31 seats with 12.31% of the votes. Of them, only five belong to Podemos.

Two months earlier, the party had already lost considerable territorial weight in the elections on May 28, remaining without representation in two important places, the Community of Madrid and the Valencian Community, and without reaching its goal of entering the regional parliaments of Castilla-Valencia either. La Mancha and Cantabria. In addition, their intention to join the PSOE in numerous territories was frustrated and they even lost regional executives that they already had, as is the case of the Valencian Community, the Balearic Islands or Aragon..

A motorcyclist has died and 41 passengers of a bus line have had to be treated, none of them for serious injuries, in an accident that occurred on the N-340 near the municipality of Tarifa in Cadiz: there has been a collision between both vehicles and the overturning of the bus.

The 112 Andalucía Emergency service has reported that the accident took place around 11:00 a.m. at kilometer 58 of the aforementioned road, between Tahivilla and Facinas, in the direction of Tarifa, when witnesses to the accident alerted 112.

As they have indicated, the Seville-La Línea de la Concepción (Cádiz) line bus left the road and overturned laterally when carrying out a sudden maneuver to avoid the collision. For this reason, medical assistance was requested for several injured, including the motorcyclist, who died on the spot..

Activated by 112, members of the Civil Guard, the Fire Department, the 061 Health Emergency Center, which has mobilized a Critical and Emergency Care Unit (DCCU), and the Local Police have moved to the place..

The UPN municipal group in the Burlada City Council has accused the current government team, chaired by EH Bildu and his partners from Contigo-Zurekin and Geroa Bai, of “using the official party program to launder ETA members with the inclusion several tributes to prisoners of the terrorist band” and has announced an appeal before the Justice. “It constitutes an act of adhesion and support for a certain cause”, they have pointed out from the regionalist formation.

Thus, they have affirmed that “it is absolutely repugnant that they want to mix the celebration of our patron saint festivities with this type of issue and that it is endorsed from the institutional point of view”. In addition, they have remarked that “in no case do these acts represent either the citizens or their parties”, and they have criticized that “money from all citizens is allocated to organize these so-called 'activities'. Finally, the regionalists have criticized that the government team “equates these acts of laundering terrorism with those that are celebrated in honor of the patron saint of the town”.

The Community of Madrid, led by Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has obtained a new soft credit line from the European Investment Bank (EIB) for the modernization of the metro network. The public bank of the European Union will finance with 200 million euros different reform actions in the underground, immersed in a transformation process. The amount, approved in May, will be divided into several loans until 2025. The first, company sources detail, will be 60 million euros.

The EIB is a usual channel of financing for the regional Executive and other public administrations. It is a key source due to the facilities and stability it provides, more accessible than that of commercial banks. In this case, according to the documentation of the European organization, it will contribute to “rehabilitate and modernize the infrastructure of the existing metro network and improve rolling stock, as well as to improve the quality, reliability, safety and accessibility of services”. These works are part of the Multiannual Investment Plan 2022-2025.

The 200 million euros to be received represent almost 50% of the total project, budgeted at 520 million euros. Sources from Metro de Madrid explain that the money will be allocated to all the actions planned in the network, whose works have already begun in some cases, such as the improvement of lines 1 and 9. The investment benefits stations, trains, tracks, signaling and control systems and ticket sales. “One of the keys will be accessibility and increasing the capacity of the lines, renewing the traction centers and modifying the electrification systems,” they point out from the company.

This economic injection, points out the EIB, aims to promote the use of public transport in large cities. “The potential plans that will be financed with this framework loan will contribute to the use of public transport, promoting intermodality and the modal transfer away from the private car”, indicates the bank in the justification for the loan, approved on May 3.

The Government of the Community of Madrid has received different loans from the EIB in recent months. As reported by El Confidencial, in December it signed two loans of 500 and 250 million euros for the construction and equipment of the future La Paz Hospital, one of the most important projects in the region, and the rehabilitation of several primary care centers.. It is about the expansion of the Cantoblanco Hospital and the reform of Carlos III, peripherals of the first. Also improvement works in three health clinics, two in the capital and another in Colmenar Viejo.

“The Lord King Don Alonso the Wise built some Shipyards or Arsenal, so grandiose that if it remained in its old form and served the use for which it was built, it would be one of the most celebrated buildings in Seville (…)”, thus Rodrigo Caro, a poet and priest from Utrera, lamented the state in which the historic shipyards of the city of Seville were located at the beginning of the 17th century.. That lament lasted for centuries and found an echo in the voices of those who, since the end of the last century, have seen how that space of imposing arcades that could be seen behind the broken glass on Calle Dos de Mayo, continued to sleep the sleep of the forgotten.

After disputes between administrations, rejected files, resolutions, resources and a pandemic, (we only lacked the expected alien invasion), finally in February of last year the rehabilitation works of the historic shipyard began, which should open its doors next year converted in (insert drum roll here) a great museum of contemporary art (applause). At least that's how it was announced last week by a local media.

Here, any last hour related to the Shipyards makes our ears prick up, logically, on the other hand, in a city that has a museum of fine arts languishing waiting for an expansion that never comes, an archaeological museum closed for works that we already know are they are not going to meet deadlines and an Andalusian Center for Contemporary Art (CAAC) which, with this new twist in the script, would leave shivering. It is true that there is an emotional distance, more than a physical one, between the island of La Cartuja, where the CAAC is located, and the rest of the city, like that plant neighbor with whom you almost never come across and you doubt that he continues to live In front of your door, in any case, something solvable by adopting the necessary measures for better communication and integration.

As for the Royal Shipyards, their origin and evolution are so intrinsically linked to the history of the city that it is hard to imagine them with any skin other than the wood of the galleys that left their ships in Seville's Arenal.. A building that must have been started by Ferdinand III after the conquest of the city in 1248 and completed by his son Alfonso X in 1252, to become a monumental arsenal, larger than that of Venice, the base of the maritime power of the most serene. For this, there were no better ships than galleys, light and agile to navigate along the coast and with the capacity to transport up to two hundred men..

Quoted and requested, the galleys that fought in the English Channel against the British in the Hundred Years War left the Seville arsenal. An intervention that must be understood as the payment of a favor from Henry II to France for the support received in the civil war against his half-brother and King Pedro I.

But not only does man live from the sea, there was also space for other uses, including prison, a prison through which captives captured by galleys in their raids through North Africa passed, but also renowned historical figures like the Granada king Muhammad VI, the vermilion king. The Casa de la Contratación also had its first headquarters here, before moving to the Alcázar, and some ships would be used as a warehouse for the Indies fleet.

In its heyday, the Shipyards had more than 35 galleys in the water, but glory, as it comes, goes, and in the second half of the 16th century a decline began marked by the end of the aforementioned War of the Hundred Years (ships are no longer needed and the maintenance of disabled ships has a very high cost) and by the new transoceanic voyages, long and dangerous voyages for which the galleys were not prepared.

Up to the present day, seven of the seventeen ships that made up that enormous space have survived.. The reduction of the ships is due to the reuse of the spaces to house institutions such as the Casa de la Moneda and the Customs, at the end of the 16th century..

The plague epidemic of 1649, which was a turning point in the history of the city, and the transfer of maritime trade to Cádiz, were the last blow to a place that had lost its soul..

But sometimes, losing you also win. And, thanks to the philanthropy of a character marked with a fluorescent marker in our local history, Miguel de Mañara, we won an artistic group that I consider to be one of the most extraordinary Baroque buildings in Spain, the Hospital de la Caridad, with its beautiful church of San Jorge, raised on five ships of the old arsenal. When walking through the interior of the hospital, the brick of the Gothic arcades appears, an irreducible shell under the protection of hospital charity.

The immensity of its cathedral naves still preserves the voices of the caulkers, the vultures, the remolars, the sail craftsmen, the shipwrights and Magellan's flirtation with Beatriz Barbosa, daughter of the lieutenant warden of the Shipyards. With the rehabilitation of the Royal Shipyards, eight centuries of history are at stake.

It is time to recover part of our soul, the one that smells of the sea.

Vox's announcement that it will give its votes for an investiture without demanding to enter a hypothetical government of Alberto Núñez Feijóo sounded like pure strategy in the PP. While from Genoa the gesture was appreciated, in the party the reading is that in these moments of “little or nothing is useful”. Popular officials coincide in pointing out to this newspaper that the announcement is part of what was agreed in the meeting between Santiago Abascal and Feijóo, which the far-right formation leaked to the press. In this context they frame the agreement that was signed in Aragon, where the president, Jorge Azcón, avoided photography with his vice president.

In the PP the feeling has been established that each decision that is made arises from improvisation. It is not understood that, if the majority analysis is that the pacts with Santiago Abascal's party have taken their toll, in Aragon the same strategy is repeated giving power to the ultra-right and paying off the story with which the PSOE mobilized its electorate. In this atmosphere of bewilderment, a sector of the PP advocates that Feijóo convene a national convention after the summer.

The objective, according to popular sources, is for the party to debate what the future strategy should be with the ultra-right and to reinforce Feijóo's leadership, whether there is a repeat election or if he ends up as leader of the opposition.. Those who defend going to a convention consider that an ideological rearmament of the party is necessary. After 23-J, dissenting voices have emerged regarding how to approach the relationship with Vox. The all-powerful Andalusian baron, Juanma Moreno, has advocated confronting the ultra-right and vindicating the PP as a government party along the lines of former presidents José María Aznar and Mariano Rajoy.

Juanma Moreno bets on absorbing the extreme right winning it at the polls. Your numbers support you. In the first legislature, he left them out of the Junta de Andalucía, and in the second, his absolute majority crushed them. The same roadmap was followed by Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the other reference to which the party looks after the parliamentary elections failed to add. Others, as expressed by Esperanza Aguirre, criticize the attack on Vox and are committed to building bridges. The debate is served, and in the party there is a coincidence that the autonomous pacts have been managed from Genoa “very badly”.

The bicephaly that has existed between the deputy secretary, Elías Bendodo, and the secretary of Organization, Miguel Tellado, at the time of controlling the territories. Popular officials insist that Feijóo should have given a guideline at the national level on how to deal with alliances after 28-M. “You cannot demonize Vox and at the same time be giving it power in the autonomies,” laments a strong man from Rajoy who warned that the PP was risking a sufficient majority by embracing those of Abascal.

The national convention would serve to set the tone for the PP. Mariano Rajoy already pointed out in his day that “if someone wants to go to the liberal or conservative party, let them go”. Feijóo arrived in a congress without ideological debate and there are voices that consider that decisions such as agreeing or not with Vox transcend Genoa, given the result of the general elections.

The meeting of the popular would also serve, according to party sources, to strengthen the leadership of Feijóo. The Galician has been “touched” after losing in the polls. There is consensus that in the event of a repeat election he should be the candidate, but the quorum breaks down when it is raised that he is as leader of the opposition. Few see Feijóo in that role and even less reintroducing himself four years later. From the same electoral night they began to look at the Baroness of Madrid. The cries in favor of Ayuso on the balcony of Genoa did not sound innocent and that is why the veterans are betting on a conclave to close wounds around the Galician.

Feijóo had unprecedented support. Both Rajoy and Aznar threw themselves into the campaigns. Both sealed peace at the Valencia convention to raise Feijóo in Moncloa. After not adding 23-J, they remain silent. Aznar's entourage revealed the joke he made taking advantage of Ana Botella's birthday, who was turning 70. The former president would have assured that he and his wife added (140) more than the PP. Beyond private account adjustments, the popular will close ranks around their leader if there is an inauguration of Pedro Sánchez.

None of the chosen ones, Ayuso or Juanma, will give battle before two years. They must consolidate their majorities. Feijóo still has the bullet of the electoral repetition or convince the PNV, in which he will put all his efforts in the coming days, that with the PP he will do better than with Sánchez. Vox's statement is one more step for the popular to seek parliamentary allies. In the match, the feeling is that Feijóo no longer has carte blanche and that he must make changes in Genoa and agree on a strategy for the future, given that Vox's “Trojan horse” is already in the governments.

If there is a city in Spain that is vulnerable and economically suffocated, that is Ceuta. It was demonstrated once again in May 2021, when more than 10,000 immigrants, a fifth of them minors, entered the city. It is demonstrated daily when Rabat does not fulfill its commitment, agreed on April 7, 2022, to allow the opening of a commercial customs office with Morocco and does not even apply the so-called traveler regime at the land border.. That is why Ceuta, and also Melilla, is mentioned in the National Security Strategy and, in addition, a Comprehensive Security Plan is being prepared for that territory of 85,000 inhabitants and 18.5 square kilometers.

If there is a city in Spain whose mayor of the Popular Party has been loyal to the coalition government, that is Ceuta. Juan Jesús Vivas, president of the city since 2001, demonstrated it in those days of May 2021, coinciding with the migratory invasion, and on many other occasions. He has effusively thanked all the visits of President Pedro Sánchez to the city. He praised the “gradual and orderly opening process” of that customs office with Morocco that still does not exist and probably will never exist..

If there is a city in Spain where a political party with citizen support threatens coexistence, that is Ceuta. Vox, now the third political force in Ceuta, is much more radical there than its national leadership. Proof of this are the attacks carried out by their local leaders against Muslim deputies in the Assembly of Ceuta, a city in which more than 40% of the population practices that religion.. Nothing similar happens with Vox in Melilla. They accused these deputies of being “undercover Moroccans”, of supporting the jihad and urged them to stand for election in Morocco and not in Spain.

Proof of this are also those WhatsApp messages exchanged between his leadership and that came to light in January 2020, causing the resignation of two of the Vox deputies.. “The third world war will have to start one day and it will be against Islam,” Francisco Ruiz, a police officer on leave and deputy for Vox, wrote, for example, at the time.. Two years later, after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Juan Sergio Redondo, the local leader of Vox, posted on Twitter that Vladimir Putin “only asks for respect for his borders”, but that neither “the US, nor the EU, nor the NATO are doing it”. “It is enough to provoke and then appear as victims,” he concluded. The party leadership urged him to delete his tweets.

If there is a city in Spain where the PP is willing to govern with the PSOE, and not with Vox, that is Ceuta. In the 2019 municipal elections, the Vivas PP no longer obtained an absolute majority and began to collaborate with Vox, which was then the second political force, without allowing it to enter the local Executive. Vivas came out scalded by that experience and, in November 2020, agreed with the PSOE to continue governing the entire legislature with its support.. After the May elections, the PP was victorious, but again without an absolute majority.

Vivas wanted to repeat the same government formula, but he was also willing to allow the PSOE —which facilitated his investiture as president— into his Executive. He explained his determination to expand his parliamentary base because it is necessary to “guarantee stability and have the capacity of government to face the challenges” that the city has.

If there is a city in Spain where the PSOE wanted to govern in coalition with the PP, that is Ceuta. Juan Gutiérrez, general secretary of the Ceuta socialists, declared on local television on July 28 that in the legislature that was starting his party did not want to continue giving “specific support” to Vivas “as until now” but to integrate “a coalition government”.. He wanted to receive his reward for that continued support.. With this purpose, Gutiérrez even began to negotiate with the PP. He aspired to obtain three ministries (Neighborhoods, Health and Tourism) and the direction of four municipal companies. Six days after Gutiérrez's statement, the PSOE of Ceuta, however, issued a statement in which it assured that “currently there is not and cannot be a government pact with the PP of Feijóo”. He did not give any further explanations..

“This is what Ceuta [from Pedro Sánchez] receives as thanks” for his loyalty, Vivas commented upon learning of the change of heart of the Ceuta socialists. He drew the conclusion that “the national leadership of the PSOE vetoed any agreement without presenting any argument”. The left-wing Madrid newspapers made the same interpretation of the PSOE's refusal to form a coalition with the PP: the order came from the party's general secretariat on Calle Ferraz in Madrid. And Ceuta lost.

The Basque Government has reactivated a conflict over the Rioja denomination of origin, considering that it affects the wine sector of its community. The institution has requested the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to “cancel, revoke or repeal” an order that modified the Regulatory Council of the Qualified Designation of Origin (DOCa) Rioja in September last year. With this modification, the wine sector of three territories, including part of the Basque Country, must allocate the grape exclusively for wines with the Rioja denomination.

The Lendakari, Iñigo Urkullu, “has authorized the Central Legal Service of the Basque Government to file the corresponding contentious-administrative appeals” if the request ends up being rejected by the ministry. The territorial institution argues that the statute generates “discrimination” between winegrowers and winemakers, “since the former are forced to produce their grapes only for DOCa Rioja, while wine corporations, especially large ones, can operate in different denominations of origin”, informs the Basque institution.

Currently, the territorial scope of the Rioja denomination includes three autonomous communities: La Rioja (121 municipalities), the Basque Country (15) and Navarra (8).. The territory governed by Urkullu represents, in liters of wine sold, 32% of total sales under the Rioja denomination, according to a 2021 report from the Regulatory Council to which El Confidencial has had access..

From the Basque Country, they request that the free market be guaranteed to the 15 municipalities affected by the decision of the Regulatory Council. Current regulations limit the ability of producers in the region to allocate part of the grapes to new denominations of origin or to the production of wines outside the Rioja denomination. In the event that a winegrower wanted to work for another brand of origin and, later, decided to return to the Rioja denomination, he would have to undergo “a complete vegetative cycle” of one year that would prevent him from continuing to market wine, according to the decision made during the plenary session of the Regulatory Council. “That vineyard could not be working in the area of another denomination,” say sources consulted by this means.

As this medium has learned, a small wine sector is in disagreement, like the Basque Country, with the statute approved in September last year, which imposes exclusivity on wineries in the area to work under the Rioja denomination. In the Basque territory, in addition to Rioja, there are four other protected designations of origin for wine. However, it has been suspended since April this year by the Superior Court of Justice of the Basque Country due to several unfavorable reports issued by the DOC Rioja and the Ministry of Agriculture.. Today, it is not allowed to market its wines.

The DOCa statute

The regulations state that “the production of the vineyards registered in the council's records must be used exclusively for the production of covered wine”. It adds that the “modification is added to the framework of rules and conditions already in force to guarantee the exclusivity of production, processing and storage”. As well as that “the exclusive dedication requirements that the registered wineries have are equated with the requirements of the vineyards, by extending the principle of exclusivity also to these, as corresponds to a qualified designation of origin”.

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One more year, the news and social networks have echoed a most peculiar event: in the Granada town of Bérchules, with approximately 700 inhabitants, they celebrate their particular New Year's Eve on the first weekend of August, with a decoration purely Christmas that includes elements such as Santa Claus hats, a parade in which anise and shortbread are distributed, carol songs, a nativity scene contest, the visit of the Three Kings, artificial snow, and of course some bells in which berchuleros and visitors take the twelve grapes.

In short, a Christmas experience condensed into a summer weekend, the climax of which took place at midnight from Saturday, August 5 to Sunday, August 6, with the exclamation of “Happy 2023 and a half”. But where does this curious tradition come from, and why did they start celebrating New Year's Eve in August in this town?

Happy new year or berchules uvas'23 pic.twitter.com/WTB4U0rjXj

—L🦋 (@Luciiavz) August 6, 2023

Origin of tradition

This “New Year's Eve in August” began to be celebrated in the year 1994. It all started because the town suffered a power blackout on the previous New Year's Eve of December 31, which marred their party and prevented them from developing it normally.. For this reason, the berchuleros wanted to remove that thorn by taking that celebration to the following month of August, in an idea that apparently was the initiative of the owner of a local nightclub. The celebration was so well received that since then they have celebrated it every August. In addition, New Year's Eve in August has become an important tourist attraction and has been attracting more and more interest from visitors from other locations, and there are even those who come from other countries to experience this peculiar party..

On Friday there was already a children's party and concerts by pop rock groups, but the big day was Saturday, when more than 7,000 people enjoyed activities such as the traditional parade with a donkey (with the participation of the Three Wise Men), the concert by the Granada-born artist Niño del Albayzín, a flamenco zambomba and the proclamation, which this year was given by the soccer player Alba Pérez and the representative of the Andalusian Emergency Group, Joaquín Martín de Oliva. At midnight, the Plaza de la Constitución was the place to drink the grapes to the sound of the chimes and toast to 2023 and a half.

People celebrating X-Mas and counting down the New-Year in August was an interesting experience. Spain is a blast. Just arrived in Seville, hairdryer heat …

—Vinny. (@viewblaster) August 6, 2023

Although this main weekend of the Bérchules August festivities has already taken place, its programming continues until August 15 with activities such as games and sports championships; Masses in honor of Santo Cristo de la Misericordia, patron saint of Alcútar, a town that belongs to this municipality; and more concerts and parades.

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During the last days, the Aemet (State Meteorological Agency) has been warning of a new wave of extreme heat, which is expected to be the most suffocating of the summer. This Sunday, the agency has issued a new update with details about what we can expect in the different areas of the country as of this Monday, August 7, which will be when this hot event begins..

As Aemet explains, this phenomenon will be caused by “a very hot and dry African continental air mass”, which is added to “the high insolation characteristic of this time of year”.. During the weekend we have already experienced an increase in temperatures, after the truce that we had had in previous days with a drop in part of the country. But it will be from Monday when this new heat wave begins in most of the Peninsula, although some areas will get rid of its most scorching effects.

⚠️ Update of our special notice for #OlaDeCalor.
🔴 40 °C may be exceeded in large areas of the Peninsula throughout the episode. In points of the south, they could even exceed 42 to 44 °C
🔴 The intense heat could reach the Canary Islands in the middle of the week. pic.twitter.com/tWgnhZ28qq

– AEMET (@AEMET_Esp) August 6, 2023

During the days of Monday and Tuesday, almost the entire peninsular area will notice an increase in temperature, except in the Mediterranean area, where it will drop. These days, the peninsular southwest quadrant will be especially affected, being able to reach 40-42 degrees. In addition, the northern half is going to experience a notable change, and there could be temperatures of 36-40 degrees even in places like Galicia and the interior of the Cantabrian Sea, which until now had enjoyed a “relatively cool” summer..

The hottest day of this heat wave will be Wednesday, when “42-44 degrees could be reached or exceeded in large areas of the southern half and central area, and 40 degrees in areas of the eastern Cantabrian Sea, center of the plateau north and Ebro valley”. Of course, in the western end there will begin to be a decrease during that day.

Already on Thursday, “the temperatures will continue to be high, but milder than the previous days”, and they will begin to drop in the northwest of the peninsula, a decrease that will gradually spread to the rest of the country during the following days. Of course, the Aemet warns that “the uncertainty of the atmospheric evolution is high”, and it is still not entirely clear that this heat wave will end on Thursday, but that it could last even longer.

tropical nights

Not only will it be very hot during the central hours of the day, but the nights will also be especially warm. In many parts of the country there will be more than 20 degrees at night, and they could even exceed 25 “in the southern half, central zone and Mediterranean area.”.

The literals of the Mediterranean area, yes, will be less affected in general by the extreme heat of this entire event, along with the coasts of the western Cantabrian and Galicia. With regard to the Canary Islands, the increase in heat will arrive a little later and for Thursday “an episode of high temperatures” is expected, although it is not yet clear if it will be possible to speak of a heat wave on the islands..