Overview
- Spain’s AEMET forecasts weak widespread frosts in the Madrid region on January 1, with minimum temperatures below 0ºC and skies turning overcast by night.
- Galician coastal towns face a cloudy, humid day with very high chances of light but persistent rain in the afternoon and evening and northeasterly gusts reaching about 38 km/h in places.
- Regional reporting cites storm Francis and a subsequent push of continental polar air that could bring heavier coastal rain and a marked temperature drop to the Valencian coast around January 4, with snow levels near 800–1100 meters inland.
- Argentina’s SMN reports relief in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area after a heat wave, with temperatures easing to roughly 20ºC–29ºC under partly cloudy skies.
- SMN maintains a yellow alert for storms in Salta, Tucumán, Jujuy, San Luis, south La Rioja, east San Juan and much of Mendoza, and warns of strong winds for southern Buenos Aires, La Pampa, Mendoza, parts of Neuquén and Río Negro, and Santa Cruz.