Overview
- Argentina’s meteorological service keeps an orange extreme-heat alert in San Juan and yellow heat advisories in parts of Patagonia.
- SMN issues yellow storm alerts for Tucumán, Catamarca, Salta and Jujuy, warning of hail, intense lightning, short-period downpours and gusts up to 70 km/h.
- Buenos Aires and the AMBA face no extreme-heat alerts on Jan. 4, with city temperatures near 20 °C and milder conditions than recent days.
- AEMET and Meteogalicia maintain yellow warnings across northern Spain for cold, snow and coastal winds linked to storm Francis, with avalanche risk in Picos de Europa and snow from around 600–700 meters.
- Local actions include Oviedo moving its Three Kings parade earlier, DGT urging road caution with snow teams deployed in Castilla y León after lighter-than-forecast snowfall, and Galicia alerts for subzero lows and rough seas; AEMET also signals Epiphany could be the coldest in decades.