Temporary. Blizzards, cold, snowfalls ... Why is Filomena so powerful?
Madrid.The Community of Madrid, on red alert for accumulations of up to 20 centimeters of snow and risk of avalanches
The State Meteorological Agency (
Aemet
) has activated the
red level
due to the forecast of
heavy snowfall on
Friday afternoon in several areas of the communities of
Madrid
, including its capital, and
Castilla-La Mancha
, where up to 20 is expected centimeters of
snow
between 18:00 and 24:00.
9.35.
All the ports of Madrid are open early this Friday despite the snow
All the ports of the road network of the
Community of Madrid
remain open early this Friday after more than 150 people and almost 40 snowplow trucks have been working to guarantee the good condition of the roads.
The Minister of Transport, Ángel Garrido, has stressed in his Twitter account that it is the first time that the red alert level for
snow
has been
activated in the metropolitan area
, and although he has stressed that all administrations are working to minimize the effects of the storm , has asked citizens "responsibility on the part of all."
9.10.
The snowstorm affects 267 main roads and cuts 36 secondary roads
A total of 267
roads
on the main road network were affected after 08.30 this morning by the
storm of snow
, cold, wind and rain that plagues all of Spain, which keeps 324 traffic incidents activated and has forced a
cut 36 secondary roads
.
According to the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) on its website, among the main roads affected by the
storm Filomena
are
the yellow level
(trucks and articulated vehicles prohibited) in Albacete the A-30 and A-31 , in Albacete capital, and the AP-36 in the La Roda area;
in Toledo, the A-4 in the Tembleque area;
in Alicante, the A-31 in Villena and the A-7 in Alcoy;
in Valencia, the A-33 in the Font de la Fuiguera and in Castellón, the A-23 in the Viber area.
On
the green level (passable with caution)
there are more than twenty main roads and the worst is in Castilla-La Mancha: in Cuenca on the A-40 at Carrascosa del Campo, on the A-43 in San Clemente, and on the A-3 in Minglanilla;
in Toledo on the CM-42 in the capital;
in Albacete on the A-43 in Villarrobledo and in Ciudad Real on the A-43 in Manzanares.
8.58.
The storm 'Filomena' freezes the thermometers that drop to -14.9ºC in Villablino (León) and Palacios (Burgos)
The
storm Filomena
and its interaction with the cold air mass that was already over the Peninsula has led the thermometers to freezing temperatures, which have dropped to
-14.9 degrees
Celsius (ºC) this morning in
Villablino
(
León
) or
Palacios de la Sierra
(
Burgos
).
8.30.
Today, there will be heavy snowfalls in areas of the center, interior, east and southeast of the country
The State Meteorological Agency (
Aemet
) foresees for today, Friday,
copious snowfalls
in downtown areas, as well as in the eastern and southeast peninsular interior, with quite low snow levels, which can accumulate thicknesses of up to 10 centimeters and locally 20 centimeters.
The
snow level
will be located in the interior center and center-north practically at any level, in the south of the southern plateau and interior of the Valencian Community it will oscillate between 400 / 1,000 meters, while in the north and east of Andalusia it will be between 900 / 2,000 meters.
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