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Spain Issues Rare Red Alert as Storms and Rain to Hit Holiday Hotspots - Manchester Evening News
SPAIN, JUL 23 – Aemet forecasts storms and temperature drops up to 10°C below average across northern and eastern Spanish mainland this week, with heat returning by week's end.
- On Wednesday, Aemet warned of storms and a temperature drop across Spain, especially in the north and east of the mainland.
- A frontal system moving from the northwest has triggered a temperature plunge that will persist this week.
- Aemet issued a red alert for Catalu�a's Depresión Central de Barcelona warning of high flash flood risk, with rainfall forecast to reach 60 litres per square metre in one hour and 120 mm in four hours, attributions from Tuesday and emphasizing flood danger.
- Following the flood warnings, the regional protecci�n civil service activated the INUNCAT flood emergency plan urging residents to stay indoors and avoid rivers, basements, and underpasses, while emergency services remain on high alert.
- Aemet forecasts the unsettled weather will persist until Friday across the Mediterranean coast and the Balearic Islands, while Aemet warns heat will return at the end of the week.
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Red Alert for torrential rain in Barcelona
Spain’s national weather agency, AEMET, has issued a red alert, the highest level of warning for parts of Cataluña, with Barcelona’s inland depression zone facing an extreme risk of flash flooding due to torrential rainfall. The alert, issued on Tuesday, warns that rainfall could reach 60 litres per square metre in just one hour, and up to 120 mm in under four hours. These volumes can pose a… Source
The system of low pressures that affects Spain since Wednesday will continue to leave instability this Thursday in the north and east of the Peninsula, as well as in the Balearic Islands, with cloudy or covered skies, precipitations and storms. In addition, time will be accompanied by a decrease of temperatures, with up to 10 degrees below normal for this time in some areas.The situation will continue until Friday, when the State Agency of Meteo…
Change of time due to an increase in atmospheric instability. “From this Wednesday and until Friday there will be possibility of stormy showers locally very strong in the northern and eastern thirds of the Peninsula, also in the Balearics, which can be accompanied by hail,” announces Rubén del Campo, spokesman of the State Agency of Meteorology (Aemet). “A lot of caution in the Mediterranean regions, which will probably be the most affected and …
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