The squall Oscar puts the islands of the western province on alert

The state agency details that «It is about successive small lows in subtropical latitudes, within the great storm, with its associated fronts and high moisture content that will impact the islands. One of these small storms will be the one that will deepen especially”, which will give rise during these two days to generalized, persistent and locally strong or very strong rains, and less intense and frequent on the islands of the Las Palmas province.

It details that the incidence of the southwest wind with the orography of the most mountainous islands will enhance the rains, especially on the western and southern slopes. In addition, during Wednesday it is likely that precipitation will fall accompanied by storms.

Óscar also arrives with an “intense associated pressure gradient”, which implies strong winds from the southwest, with very strong gusts of up to 70 kilometers per hour on the northwestern and eastern slopes of the highest islands and locally it could exceed 90 kilometers per hour on the summits and in the northwest of the islands of The Palm and TenerifeHence, both areas remain with the orange warning from the State Meteorological Agency as of midnight on Monday.

The storm will go around the map of the archipelago to the northeast, to be located at the end of the day on Tuesday to the west of the peninsula, where it will remain, always according to Aemet, for several days, probably until the weekend.

Its effects there will be more limited than in Canary Islandswith fairly widespread rainfall as of Wednesday, while in the archipelago the episode of intense rains and winds is expected to end on Thursday.

In detail, the warning map paints the peaks and the west of La Palma in orange, as well as the north of Tenerife due to a significant risk of gusts of wind, and practically the entire western province is reduced to a yellow warning due to rains of up to 20 liters in one hour, also in areas of La PalmaMeanwhile in La Gomera, The ironnorth of Tenerife, and the east, south and west of Gran Canaria the accumulated may be 15 liters per hour.

In the north, peaks, east, south and west of Gran Canaria, winds with slightly lower maximum speeds are expected, around 70 kilometers per hour.

The mix is ​​completed by the warnings, also yellow, for coastal phenomena that affect the east and west of La Palma, with winds of up to force 7, as well as in the east, south and west of Tenerife, due to the same intensity of the wind.

These warnings, except those for coastal phenomena, will remain in force on Wednesday, especially in Tenerife, which will continue alone with the orange warning for winds and precipitation to return to normal on Thursday.

This Tuesday, a greater intensity of air speed was already evident in the Izaña meteorological stations, at the top of Tenerife, with gusts of up to 75 kilometers per hour shortly after noon, while at La Palma airport they exceeded 60 kilometers per hour.

It should also be noted that the storm does not bring with it a drop in temperatures, hoping that the maximum will be around 29 degrees Celsius, like the one noted this Monday in The Village of San Nicolásgiven that the prediction speaks of values ​​with few changes, except for decreases in the peaks of La Palma, Tenerife and Gran Canaria, and slight ascents in Lanzarote and Fuerteventura.

Right on those two islands, as well as on the gracefulthe effects of the Oscar storm will go somewhat more unnoticed, with less intense winds and some rains that are relegated to Wednesday, with little possibility that they fall weakly and dispersed, according to the prediction of the state agency.