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The climate and landscape are determined by the Atlantic Ocean winds whose moisture gets trapped by the mountains circumventing the Spanish Atlantic coast. Because of the Foehn effect, the southern slopes fall inside the rain shadow zone and so Green Spain contrasts starkly with the rest of Spain. The rainfall is generally abundant, exceeding ...
A puente (Spanish for bridge) is a holiday in Spain. It is the day off to bridge the time between the weekend and a holiday, thereby creating a long weekend. A puente typically occurs when a holiday falls on a Tuesday or Thursday, workers will then take the Monday or Friday as a puente, a day off. [1] Some businesses will close down altogether. [2]
Over the summer season (4 months), the average temperatures is 26–29 °C (79–84 °F) during the day and the average sea temperature is 23 °C (73 °F). The weather in Barcelona during spring and autumn can be very changeable. During these months it can rain for quite long periods, but consecutive sunny days are also fairly common.
Precipitation, especially rain, has a dramatic effect on agriculture. All plants need at least some water to survive, therefore rain (being the most effective means of watering) is important to agriculture. While a regular rain pattern is usually vital to healthy plants, too much or too little rainfall can be harmful, even devastating to crops.
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A long weekend is a weekend that is at least three days long (i.e. a three-day weekend), due to a public or unofficial holiday occurring on either the following Monday or the preceding Friday. Many countries also have four-day weekends , in which two days adjoining the weekend are holidays.
The great Valencia flood on 14 October 1957 was the result of a three-day-long cold drop and caused the deaths of at least 81 people.. The Vallès floods on 25 September 1962 in the province of Barcelona were caused by a cold drop (gota fría), [7] producing heavy rain, overflowing the Llobregat and Besòs rivers.
The Conversation, Explainer: how ‘Spanish plume’ set off a heatwave in the UK; UK Weather Forecast: What is a ‘Spanish plume’ Netweather Blog: The Spanish Plume Arrives & An Increasing Risk of Thunderstorms; SkyWarn UK, Forecasting a Spanish Plume (June 2014) FMI Convective cloud features in typical synoptic environments: the Spanish plume