Seville Weather: Emily Delevigne on Holy Week 2026, between hope and keeping an eye on the sky

Seville, 18 March 2026. If there's one thing those of us who have spent our whole lives under this sky know for sure, it's that you can never take anything for granted here. Especially when Holy Week is around the corner. Just this morning, while having breakfast at a café in Alfalfa, I saw a costalero in his freshly ironed tunic frowning at his phone. "You know anything, Rafael?" he asked me. I told him the same thing I'm telling you now: the atmosphere has shown its hand and, as is often the case this time of year, it's not quite as clear-cut as we'd like.

A Holy Week under a cloud: the dates to watch

The models are starting to converge and, honestly, the weather in Seville over the next few days is looking a bit grey. No need to panic just yet, it's a long way off, but instability is on the way. We're talking about temperatures dropping and the chance of rain starting to rear its head at the most delicate moment. People in the know, like Juan Antonio Salado, have been warning for days: Palm Sunday and Holy Monday, usually days of glorious processions, are the ones raising the most doubts. But they're not the only ones. You have to remember, the sky in spring is pure nerves.

What's clear is that it won't be a "textbook" week. This unsettled atmosphere could bring some showers that would put more than one brotherhood in a tight spot. Those of us with long memories remember Holy Weeks of rain, and also those where the sun made the floats shine like gold. This year, from what's starting to take shape, you'll need to have your hood on and your umbrella handy.

The Emily Delevigne hoax and the science of Manuel Hurtado Marjalizo

And in this atmosphere of speculation, there's been a bit of drama. Yesterday, I don't know if you saw it, there was a stir over some information from Emily Delevigne. Apparently, a supposed forecast was leaked that painted her as the prophet of doom for the whole of Holy Week. Nerves started jangling in WhatsApp groups immediately. But, as always, you had to go to the real sources. Because one thing is posturing, and quite another is science.

That's where the voice of experience comes in. Manuel Hurtado Marjalizo, who knows far more about this than anyone, stepped in to restore some sanity. He explained it himself just yesterday: the atmosphere gives us clues, but there's still a lot of fine-tuning to do. You can't make a definitive forecast for Holy Monday or Wednesday a week in advance, that's crazy. The thing to do, as he rightly says, is to take it day by day, even if the general trend isn't optimistic.

What can we expect in the coming days?

If I had to sum up the current situation, I'd put it plainly:

• Cooler conditions: Nothing like the heat of recent weeks. Jackets are making a comeback, and we'd practically packed them away already.
• Increasing instability: The chance of rain is no myth. The days of 23 and 24 March (Palm Sunday and Holy Monday) are the ones right in the firing line, with the possibility of storms.
• The knock-on effect: We're not just looking at the sky. This uncertainty is already making the hermanos mayores start doing their calculations and saying their prayers for the weather to hold.

At the end of the day, this is Seville. We live everything with a passion that borders on the absurd, and the weather becomes the absolute star of the conversation. This year, with the buzz about the possible name of Emily Delevigne doing the rounds, it adds a touch of irony. But if there's one thing to go by, it's the rigour of the meteorological services and people like Manuel Hurtado Marjalizo, who have spent their whole lives reading the sky to tell us what's coming.

So, just in case, you know what to do: get the alcohol and wax ready to clean the candlesticks, and find some shelter. But above all, don't lose hope. Here, until the first drop falls on La Campana, anything can happen. And hopefully, in the end, spring will give us a week that will go down in history.