42 degrees maximum for this Monday: Zaragoza keeps the orange alert for the heat wave
Temperatures in Saragossa They still do not give truce, with maximums that will reach 42 degrees on Monday. That is why the Zaragoza City Council It maintains the orange alert of the Municipal Emergency Plan for heat wave, which was activated this Saturday and will be extended, initially, until Thursday at 8.00.
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According to the State Meteorology Agency (Aemet), this Monday will be the day that the highest temperatures are recorded in Zaragoza, with 42 degree maximums in some points of the territory. The rest of the days the temperatures will remain very high, oscillating between 38 and 40 degrees. The minimums are between 25 and 26 degrees.
Although the orange alert will remain active for the moment until Thursday, the AEMET already announces some temperatures for the weekend that will reach 42 degrees on Saturday and Sunday. That is why it can be expected that the orange alert will last a few more days, as they announced from the Zaragoza City Council that could happen based on the forecast that is confirmed.
Municipal pools and climatic shelters
Among the measures taken for these cases, the price of the individual entrance of the municipal pools is reduced, provided that it is acquired at the box office. The cost will go from 4 euros to 2.5 euros in the case of adults; 2.70 to 2 euros for minors; and from 2.60 to 2 euros for over 65 years and pensioners.
In addition, the City Council of Zaragoza has a network of climatic shelters composed of 55 municipal equipment that is available in its opening schedule. To the coexistence centers of the elderly and the civic centers of the city that already worked last year, this summer the exhibition hall of Pignatelli deposits or the headquarters of the Environment Office at Casa Jiménez has been added.
From the Environmental Office, Climate Action and Public Health of the City Council, accesses to these shelters have been marked, to make them known and that citizens know that they can use them as a refreshment space.
