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Eighth and Last Day of the May Warming: Starting on Friday, temperatures will drop sharply

The orange alert remains active in the ACV, while in the Navarre Bank and the French Basque Country the yellow warning has been activated.

GETXO (BIZKAIA), 22/05/2026.- Cientos de personas han acudido a la playa de Ereaga en Getxo (Bizkaia) este viernes, jornada en la que seis comunidades autónomas, entre ellas el País Vasco, se encuentran en aviso amarillo (riesgo importante) por altas temperaturas que pueden superar los 34-38 grados.  EFE/ Miguel Toña
Ereaga beach in Getxo. Stock Photo: EFE

For the eighth day in a row, the heat will be hot, but from Friday it will be sunny, but temperatures will drop sharply. 

According to the Euskalmet forecast, it will be hot again today , with maximum temperatures around 28-30 degrees Celsius along the coast and 34-36 degrees inland.

The skies will be almost entirely clear. The wind will be variable in the morning, turning from noon to the east/northeast on the coast. At dusk the wind will turn to the west/northwest, at first in Bizkaia, and then it will spread to everything. 

For all these reasons, the Basque Government's Directorate of Emergency and Meteorological Carehas activated the Orange Alert  for the second consecutive day due to the risk of persistent high temperatures.

In Navarre, AEMET will reactivatethe yellow warning\ u00A0Au00A014: 00 to 20:00 in the Ribera for high temperatures.

In Iparralde they will be under yellow warning again. 

From Friday afternoon thechangewill reach the . Forecasts indicate that the wind will turn north at dusk and the sky will begin to cover with clouds.

Asa result of theheat wave  that is shaking almost all of Europe, Osakidetza hastreated more than 100 people  since last Friday, and one of them, an 80-year-old man, has died in Álava.

The Carlos III Health Institute'sDaily Mortality Monitoring System  (Momo) estimates that the heat wave may have caused the death of 14 people in the CSC.

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