Election Day Weather: Better vote with a fan

after Two days of a short truceThe sweltering heat will intensify again over the weekend in Spain, which is celebrating The first democratic elections On full summer vacation. On Saturday, a reversal day, a slight rise in temperatures is expected, although they will remain around the normal range, but on Sunday the heat will double its bet, so that “election day will be warmer than usual in the eastern third, as thermometers in some areas will determine values ​​between 5 and 10 degrees higher than usual.” Leads Ruben Del Campo, spokesman for the government’s weather agency (Emmett). And the picture continues: “There will be no rain, although dry storms may form in the afternoon in the eastern interior of the peninsula.” More than 35° is expected in large areas of the east, south and central of the peninsula and in the Balearic Islands and between 38° and 40° in the regions of Castilla-La Mancha, Extremadura and Andalusia, which will be exceeded at points of the Guadalquivir Valley.

Overall, the day when 35.4 million Spaniards were called to vote –Two and a half million of them have already done so by mail– “A cloudy or slightly clear sky will prevail over most of the country, with stable and dry weather, as is usual for that time of the year”, although the Atlantic front will touch the northern third of the peninsula, so there will be “more clouds in the communities of Galicia and Cantabria, with some light rain”. In the afternoon, dry storms may form in the mountainous regions of the eastern peninsula, which leave little or no rain, but generate winds that can be very strong.

Regarding temperatures, del Campo recalls that “we live in extreme heat, the period when the highest temperatures are reached”. Although it covers July 15th to August 15th, the 23rd is statistically not one of the worst days, which are concentrated from July 28th to 31st. “There will be a general rise in day and night temperatures, more pronounced in the northeast of the peninsula and in the Balearic Islands,” so it will be a hot day in much of the country, “even warmer than usual, with values ​​between 5 and 10 degrees above average, in Navarra, La Rioja, much of Aragon, inland Valencia and points in Andalusia and Mallorca.” There is an orange note, the second of a scale of three, in Andalusiawhile it is yellow, minimalist, in the Balearic Islands, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia, Community of Madrid, Navarra, La Rioja and Community of Valencia

Depending on the regions, in Cantabrian communities the environment will be much milder, with temperatures ranging from 23° to 28° in cities such as Bilbao, Santander and Oviedo. Thermometers on the northern plateau will be around 33 degrees in the early afternoon in Valladolid and Salamanca. In the Ebro Valley, the heat is more intense, from 37° to 39° in Logroño and Zaragoza. On the Mediterranean coast, it will be 30° / 32° in Barcelona, ​​Valencia and Castellón, with a feeling of wet weather, and reach 34° in Palma de Mallorca or Almeria.

Guadalquivir, in the far east of Andalusia and south of Castilla-La Mancha, will be the hottest place in the country to vote, with early afternoon temperatures ranging from 39 degrees to 41 degrees in cities like Seville, Cordoba, Granada and Ciudad Real. It will also be hot in the downtown area, with 36 degrees in Madrid and 38 degrees in Toledo, and mild in the Canary Islands, with 25 degrees in Las Palmas and 28 degrees in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

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A good tip is to go vote early in the morning, when it’s cool. Polling stations will open between 12° and 16° in the communities of Cantabria and North Meseta and from 18° to 22° in the rest of the interior of the peninsula. On the shores of the Mediterranean, on the other hand, 25 degrees of the first hours will already be exceeded, ”explains an Aemet spokesperson.

In view of these expectations, several municipalities decided to place fans or air conditioners in schools, for example the one in Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid), which distributed 250 devices in 16 polling stations. They will also give 6,000 water bottles and 600 fans to table members and staff. In the capital, the government delegation purchased 2,700 fans, water dispensers and extension cords, which will be distributed by the city council. In the case of Albacete, the Consistory acquired 150 fans for 30 of the 42 schools that did not have them, while Ciudad Real rented 30 fans. The Barcelona City Council supplied the fans and 18,000 bottles of water.

In San Sebastian de los Reyes (Madrid), the city council has heated all voting stations with fans and portable air conditioners and will provide water, soft drinks, breakfast and lunch to polling station members, local and national police and other administrative workers. The councils of several Andalusian cities, including those of Seville and Granada, have planned similar measures and to remember precisely that Andalusian schools do not have air conditioning and that the bioclimatic law is still not complied with. Platform Calor Schools requested To the district voters who come to vote in a yellow shirt.

Once the polls have done their duty, the results will be assimilated after the election on Monday on a day when no significant temperature changes are expected, “except in the north, where it will be lower.”