Spain Weather - Central Spain
The Central Regions of Spain
Including (with towns and cities in parentheses):
ARAGON (Zaragoza), CASTILLA-LEÓN (Salamanca, Segovia, Valladolid),
CASTILLA-LA MANCHA (Toledo), EXTREMADURA (Badajoz), LA RIOJA (Logroño),
and MADRID (Madrid),
inland ANDALUSIA (Córdoba, Granada, Jerez, Seville) and Andalusia's Atlantic coast,
southern inland parts of ASTURIAS, CANTABRIA, NAVARRA, and PAIS VASCO,
western inland parts of CATALONIA, MURCIA (Murcia), and VALENCIA
Rainfall is generally rather low over most of the interior although winter
snowfall may be quite heavy and lie for a long time on the mountains.
In late summer much of the country has a burnt and barren appearance after
the long summer drought. The old French saying, Africa begins at the Pyrenees,
has some truth in it if it is taken to refer to the heat and dry appearance
of much of the countryside in summer. Summers are generally hot, particularly
in the Guadalquivir valley in the south, where some of the highest Temperatures
in Europe are recorded. Spring and early summer tend to be the wettest
seasons in many places, but the rainfall is light and not very effective
as it often falls in short, heavy showers. Winters have frequent cold
spells with biting winds blowing off the snow-covered sierras. Dust and
hot winds are the most unpleasant features of the summer weather, but
low humidity makes the heat more bearable than in some of the coastal
regions. The length of the dry summer season increases from north to south.
Sunshine amounts are quite high throughout the year, ranging from an average
of five hours a day in winter to as much as twelve hours in midsummer.
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