The weather gets more complicated again this week from Wednesday onwards. The Aemet has already activated the orange alert on the Costa del Sol and the Guadalhorce Valley for heavy rainfall accompanied by storms. A new DANA will affect us again throughout the week. 

On Monday, weather maps sounded the alarm for this week. Experts are warning about the arrival of a cold front from northern Europe that will move southwestwards over the next few days, reaching the peninsula and the Balearic Islands on Tuesday 12th, causing a drop in temperatures. This cold front will deepen in the Mediterranean on Wednesday, remaining in our area until at least Saturday 16th. The increase in instability will be accompanied by the entry of a humid Mediterranean flow from the east, so it is likely that there will be very heavy and persistent rainfall accompanied by storms. 

According to the head of the Mijas Pueblo weather station, Cristóbal Gambero, "this happens because in the highest part of the atmosphere, the air is colder, with temperatures of 15 or 20 degrees Celsius below zero and this, combined with our Mediterranean area, where the sea water is warm and evaporates, means that when this evaporation reaches these higher levels, it condenses and causes the rain to fall torrentially.

This is what Aemet warns on its website, accompanied by a map where on Wednesday in the Costa del Sol and the Guadalhorce Valley the orange alert is activated. There is a significant risk of rainfall of up to 30 litres in an hour and an accumulated of up to 100 litres in 12 hours, which may extend until Thursday. 

According to Gambero, "both in Valencia and here, we must also take into account the orographic factor. The mountain range that surrounds the coast acts as a screen for this torrential rain to fall".  So they should take extreme precautions before the arrival of this new cold front with heavy rain. 

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