Iberian weather patterns

[Damião de Góis]

I wasn't sure where to put this but the purpose of this thread is to post everything related with weather in the Iberian peninsula.

I'll start with rainfall. The wettest place in Iberia is actually Northwest Portugal and not Galicia or elsewhere in Northern Spain as people would expect.

Here are the wettest places:



The least wet places:



And an overview... basically the northwest is the wettest place, followed by the Basque Country and the southeast is the dryest:

[Bobby Six Killer]

so it rains a lot in portugal?

[Damião de Góis]

so it rains a lot in portugal?

In the north as you can see above.

[Riki]

so it rains a lot in portugal?

Yep,sometimes we can have torrential rain for a all Month.

[Riki]

I remember when I was young the continuous storms throughout winter.
With winds so strong that roofs,trees and cars would be moved.

[Bobby Six Killer]

Yep,sometimes we can have torrential rain for a all Month.

How cold is the north part in winter?

[Vasconcelos]

Not too cold, temperatures can go below 0, but not much.

[Anthropologique]

How cold is the north part in winter?

It's coldest in the north-east (Tras-os-Montes). The region also gets the most snow.

[Damião de Góis]

Highest values of precipitation measured in one day:

[Vasconcelos]

Serra do Gerês, Iberian capital of rain.