Chill sets in as mercury plummets overnight during Three Kings week
Monday, January 5, 2015 @ 2:16 PM
THIS year’s Three Kings celebrations are set to be some of the coldest on record with sub-zero temperatures predicted across the country.
Although the south and east coasts, from Castellón down to Cádiz, are expected to see the mercury rise to as much as 21ºC briefly in the middle of the day, the mornings and early evenings will be chilly for the foreseeable future and night temperatures will plummet to around 2ºC or even less.
The provinces of Alicante and Murcia have seen thermometers plummet to as low as -4ºC in the last two or three days, but although the cold snap is predicted to continue until after the bank holiday for the Magi on Tuesday, January 6, it will remain above freezing along the Mediterranean and the Strait of Gibraltar.
Highs will go up slightly on the eve of the Three Kings in provinces bordering the Cantabrian Sea, the High Ebro delta and the Pyrénées, but a minor cold front will enter the mainland from the north-west at around the same time bringing down temperatures in Galicia and then extending across the rest of the country, with the exception of the Canary Islands.
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