Expect a Holy Week

Málaga/The Holy Week in Málaga is just around the corner, and the weather website Eltiempo.es has already made its weather prediction for those dates. This year, Holy Week is celebrated from April 13 (Palm Sunday) to April 20 (Easter Sunday), and for those dates, this website anticipates a period "slightly rainier than usual" in the southern half of the peninsula.

Specifically, according to Mario Picazo, the areas most affected by these precipitations will be Andalusia, Murcia, and the Canary Islands, as well as the southern sectors of Castilla-La Mancha, Extremadura, and the Valencian Community.

Regarding temperatures, they will remain within the usual values for April, except for the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands, where they could be "slightly above" the usual.

However, the same portal emphasizes that there are still many days left to make an "exact" prediction. Therefore, this forecast is surrounded by great "uncertainty". In this regard, the director of the Meteorological Center of Málaga, Jesús Riesco, insisted at the beginning of the week that it is still too early to know the precipitation forecast for Holy Week.

Thus, Riesco explained that being "scientifically rigorous" it is not possible to make a forecast "since the reliability of the models more than three weeks in advance, is not adequate to make predictions for a specific area." According to this, we would have to wait until the week before to know more precisely the weather expected for Holy Week.

The only certain data available today is the monthly precipitation that on average usually falls in Málaga in April, which is 44 liters per square meter.

It should be remembered that Holy Week 2024, which took place in the last week of March, was one of the rainiest in recent years. As a result, of the more than 40 brotherhoods that are part of the program in Málaga capital, only 22 were able to parade. During that week, just in the city, 90 liters per square meter were accumulated, when the usual in March is 52 liters.

March ends with warmth in Málaga

This month of March, historic in terms of precipitation in the province of Málaga, is going to end with warmth. The thermometers are rising until the end of the month, with highs reaching 26 degrees on the coast. This rise in temperatures comes with the terral wind. This Thursday, the province recorded the highest temperatures in Spain, with 24.1 degrees in Vélez-Málaga and 23.4 in Coín. Close behind are Estepona (23 degrees), the port of Málaga capital (22.9), and the airport (22.7).

In principle, this terral will remain in the territory until Saturday (a day when currently 26 degrees are recorded as the maximum in the capital). From Sunday, the thermometers will drop, with highs of 20 on the coast and 16 inland. For the end of March, there is no rain forecast, nor for the first half of the next week.