The nightmare does not stop. With Valencia and other points still trying to recover from the DANA devastation two weeks ago, a new extreme weather episode has led several areas of Spain to extreme risk. Malaga mainly, but also Tarragona and Valencia again They have faced a tough Wednesday with alerts, incidents and warnings to the population, which will remain red at dawn in some regions of the Peninsula.
The most affected area, so far, has been the province of Malaga, which already felt part of the blow at the end of October. Already on Tuesday, the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) warned of “extreme risk” due to torrential rains and the foreseeable river and basin overflowswhich have been fulfilled. Reason why it maintains for the early hours of this Thursday the red alert for heavy rains in Malaga and Valencia.
On the north and south coast of Valencia the forecast is up to 180 l/m2 in 12 hours until noon, while in the Malaga regions of Sol, Guadalhorce and Axarquía a maximum of 120 l/m2 is expected in 12 hours until noon. 8 in the morning In its account on (significant danger) in large areas of southern and western Andalusia. The rains will be very strong and persistent.
Therefore, some areas of Granada such as the Genil basin, the coast, Sierra Nevada and Alpujarras are on orange alert; of Cádiz, as Strait and coastline; and from Huelva, in Aracena, Andévalo and Condado and littoral. In Catalonia there is only a yellow warning on the southern coast of Tarragona until 5 in the morning.
This time, the foresight and anticipation have been key to minimize as much as possible the effects of a storm that, So far, there have been no human victims..
Yes, an infinite number of incidents. In the absence of a later update, they rise to 4,000 people evicted in Malagahastily relocated to sports centers, residences or secure buildings.
In a large part of the province where classes and also road and rail transportation have been suspended, with the paralysis of high speed and other train routesas well as effects on some flights, cuts that have also occurred in the east of the peninsula.
Floods in the streets of Malaga capital
The discharge has been the strongest in 35 years, as detailed by EFE, causing the flooding of houses and streets and the overflow of three rivers —Benamargosa, Guadalmendina and Vélez- what you have put in risk to dozens of nearby towns to its channels. Himself Malaga center has been flooded until it became a large raft of water where circulation was practically impossible.
Those accumulated have far exceeded 100 liters per square meter in different parts of Malaga. Thus, with data from the Hidrosur network, dependent on the Government of Andalusia, until 5:00 p.m., 144.5 liters had been recorded in Santón Pitar., located in Los Montes de Málaga, 144.2 liters in Alfarnatejo, 140 in Malaga capital or 120 in Coin.
The early morning in Valencia is worrying
In the middle of the afternoon, the AEMET did the same with the red alert in Valenciaraising the risk to the maximum level in the northern and southern coasts of the provincewhere the population has felt a new telephone warning from the Es-Alert emergency system.
He Noticethis time immediate in your notificationit has been activated at 9:00 p.m. and will arrive until noon on Thursdaywith accumulated amounts that can reach 40 liters per square meter in one hour and 180 l/m2 in 12 hours. Calculations that have led the authorities to decree restrictions on the mobility of private vehicles until early Thursday morning up to 163 municipalitiesincluding the provincial capital, as well as the suspension of classes.
Because the risks of the present time multiply, as also download in the municipalities most punished by DANA on October 29. In all these areas, emergencies have had to suspend the search for the missing that there are still two weeks later.
In Tarragona the situation has improved, somewhatas the afternoon progressed, leading to the AEMET to reduce the intensity of your alerts to orange level. The Generalitat of Catalonia hopes to recover normality from midnight from Wednesday to Thursday, with the return to classes and mobility without limitations.
The rain, however, has wreaked havoc in numerous towns in the province of Tarragona, with various points in which 100 liters per square meter have been exceeded. The precipitation has also arrived with strong storms and gusts of wind. Therefore, the Generalitat had decreed mobility restrictions in five regions of Tarragona —Tarragonès, Montsià, Baix Ebre, Ribera d’Ebre and Baix Camp—, valid until the early hours of Thursday morning.
It has rained hard also in Teruelwhere evictions have been carried out in some municipalities, the north of the province of Castellonwhich remains at the orange level due to rainfall that could leave 60 liters in one hour and 150 in 12 hours until midnight or Granada. Also in light of the orange notice in territories of the province of Granada, the Junta de Andalucía announced restrictions and suspension of classes the night before.
Roads, the other source of consequences of DANA
The DGT has maintained constantly updated throughout the day the network of roads affected and/or cut off by rain and other phenomena. Thus, the news has been constant and late in the day are still close 40 traffic lanes closed throughout the country and hundreds that have damages and retentions.
Of the cuts, the Most of them touch the Valencian Communitya region for which The DGT recommends avoiding driving as far as possible, the same as in the south of the peninsula, especially Malaga, and in Tarragona. In the Catalan province, up to 13 main roads have been significantly affected, highlighting the AP-7, although the situation has been improving.
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