Spain cools; Isaias forms RTVE reports El Niño record

Oct 8

Mónica López’s complete RTVE weather unit reports falling Spanish temperatures and more evident early-autumn mountain frosts, down to −4°C at Cap de Baqueira and Astún La Raca, plus remaining Catalan/Balearic showers and Cantabrian rain. She forecasts wider frost before temperatures recover over the holiday weekend, with regional and Canary rain qualifications. She identifies Isaias as the Atlantic season’s first hurricane, currently category one, and forecasts possible category-two landfall east of the Mississippi mouth/New Orleans late Friday or early Saturday, with heavy wind and rain. She attributes the late season to El Niño and reports newly known record Pacific warming and an ‘official’ super El Niño, with a displayed Pacific anomaly of 3.4°C and waters off Ecuador 5.3°C above expected; the declaring agency is unnamed. These are RTVE’s claims and conditional forecasts.

RTVE reports more evident early-autumn mountain frost on October 8, with −4°C at Cap de Baqueira and Astún La Raca and falling Spanish temperatures. Remaining Catalan/Balearic showers and Cantabrian rain follow the cold-air incursion. López forecasts a further fall and wider frost before weekend recovery; these later conditions remain forecasts.