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Heat wave cut short, but Andalusia workers face 42°C Saturday

Heat wave cut short, but Andalusia workers face 42°C Saturday

Spain's Aemet declared the fourth heat wave of the season over on Friday, one day ahead of schedule, but Andalusia will still see 40-42°C on Saturday before…

Residents and outdoor workers in Andalusia's Guadalquivir Valley, Genil basin, and Atlantic-facing areas will endure another day of 40 to 42 degrees Celsius this Saturday, even as Spain's State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) announced the early end of the country's fourth heat wave of the season, according to agency spokesperson Rubén del Campo, speaking through official channels. 🔹 What happened: Aemet shortened the heat wave — which started Wednesday — by one day, moving its end from Saturday to Friday, after forecasting an inflow of cool air from the north. That air mass will bring relief to the Cantabrian coast, the upper and middle Ebro, and the northern and central peninsula. Saturday remains hot in southern Atlantic zones with highs of 40-42°C. Starting Sunday midday, a western trough will push cooler air first into the southwestern quadrant and by Monday across the full peninsula and Balearic Islands. Del Campo warned that storms with hail and strong wind gusts are expected in the Pyrenees and eastern interior areas. The Canary Islands will see no improvement, with calima and climbing temperatures instead. 🔹 Why it matters: For people working outdoors in Andalusia — including agricultural laborers in the Guadalquivir and Genil regions — Saturday brings no relief despite the official end of the heat wave designation. Overnight temperatures in the Mediterranean coast and inland Andalusia will not drop below 25 degrees Celsius in some locations, compressing recovery time before the next workday. Mountain communities in the east face a different threat: hail and intense wind from the forecast storms. Canary Islands residents are excluded from the nationwide cooling pattern entirely, facing continued heat and calima conditions with no timeline for change given in the source. 📌 EPM Take: Four heat waves in one season, and the fourth lasted two days before Aemet clipped it early. The headline says relief — but the details say Saturday in Andalusia still hits 42 degrees, Sunday rebounds to 38 across the east and Mallorca, and some Mediterranean and inland Andalusian communities won't dip below 25 overnight. Del Campo said that plainly. What that means in practice for someone doing physical labor on Saturday morning in the Guadalquivir Valley is not in any forecast graphic. EPM has covered the strain on Spain's emergency and social infrastructure repeatedly this summer. The meteorological pattern here adds one more layer: if a fifth wave follows — and nothing in the source rules it out — it arrives against a population and a response system that has been through this four times already this season, with Canarias having never gotten a break.
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