{"id":587414,"date":"2025-11-22T20:15:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T20:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/587414\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T20:15:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T20:15:18","slug":"watch-heavy-snowfall-blankets-northern-spain-after-arctic-cold-snap-rolls-in-with-temperatures-plummeting-to-as-low-as-10c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/587414\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Heavy snowfall blankets northern Spain after Arctic cold snap rolls in &#8211; with temperatures plummeting to as low as -10C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HEAVY snowfall has blanketed large swathes of northern Spain this weekend after a teeth-chattering Arctic blast plunged temperatures across the peninsula.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">La imagen tomada hoy (22\/11\/25) por el sat\u00e9lite Terra de la NASA ??? muestra c\u00f3mo las nevadas han llegado a la pen\u00ednsula ????. Este episodio fr\u00edo nos deja una estampa totalmente invernal ?????. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rbdC6HjwhI\">pic.twitter.com\/rbdC6HjwhI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Un ge\u00f3logo en apuros ???? (@geologoenapuros) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/geologoenapuros\/status\/1992299658048094481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 22, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier this week, the state weather service Aemet issued an orange weather alert warning that flakes would fall \u2013 and the predictions proved correct with much of Spain feeling the freeze.<\/p>\n<p>With temperatures up to ten degrees lower than normal for mid-November, the snowline in elevated areas dropped as low as 500 metres.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures plunged to -10C near the Pyrenees as the wintery weather set in, with snow causing widespread disruption on elevated roads.<\/p>\n<p>To make matters worse, gusts of over 60km\/h have added an extra chill to the cold conditions.<\/p>\n<p>From Sunday, the mercury is forecast to finally climb back towards levels more normal for late autumn.<\/p>\n<p>Click here to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theolivepress.es\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spain News<\/a> from The Olive Press.<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HEAVY snowfall has blanketed large swathes of northern Spain this weekend after a teeth-chattering Arctic blast plunged temperatures&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,18104,8626,2462,104,42713,42710,185145,18106,59345],"class_list":{"0":"post-587414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-news-spain","11":"tag-newspaper","12":"tag-snow","13":"tag-spain","14":"tag-spain-snow","15":"tag-spain-weather","16":"tag-spain-winter","17":"tag-the-olive-press","18":"tag-winter"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115595190130843160","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}