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The
rains and storms will
continue this Thursday in Spain, putting 28 provinces on notice, according to the prediction of the State Meteorological Agency (
AEMET
) for this September 2.
The instability caused by DANA will not completely subside until Sunday.
This has been explained by the AEMET spokesperson, Rubén del Campo, who has warned that this day will also be "adverse" in terms of
time
in
Spain
.
The Canary Islands are out of this situation
, where there will be trade winds and clouds, but with hardly any rainfall in the north of the islands of greater relief.
And in the south it will be clear.
This Thursday, the day will be "complicated" again, as showers are again expected in large areas of the Peninsula, locally strong and with
hail and intense gusts of wind associated with storms
, especially in the central and eastern half of the peninsula. .
The image of this morning is in Murcia, where
the rain overflows the streets and boulevards in Águilas
and has forced to cut the road with the town of Lorca, at the height of the El Saltador Mill, as announced by the Águilas City Council on its account from Twitter.
After two hours, road traffic could be restored after the traffic collapsed.
Eagles is also working on
restoring the supply of drinking water
, which is suffering cuts, after the break in the general in the urban nucleus due to the heavy rains this morning.
The council has asked citizens to avoid taking the car and to take extreme precautions while the "heavy rain" episode lasts, without any personal injury being reported at the moment.
In just half an hour, between 09.30 and 10.00, a strong waterspout has fallen, which has dragged vehicles parked on the street.
Specifically, the islands of
Mallorca and Menorca
, in the Balearic Islands (the latter island will have a yellow warning for rissagas),
Tarragona, Castellón and Valencia
will be in orange notice (important risk)
, while in yellow notice (risk) will be: Huesca, Zaragoza , Teruel, Asturias, Cantabria, Burgos, León, Palencia, Segovia, Soria, Zamora, Cuenca, Guadalajara, Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, Lugo, Ourense, Madrid, Navarra, Álava, Guipúzcoa, Vizcaya and La Rioja.
According to the AEMET, instability will continue this Thursday in
large areas of the northern and eastern halves of the Peninsula
, also extending to the Balearic Islands.
Showers and storms are expected in most of the northeast peninsular and northeast half of the Balearic Islands, which can be locally strong and accompanied by hail, especially in Castellón and Valencia at dawn, where they can be very strong.
With less probability and weaker the further to the southwest, they can also occur in other areas of the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, without affecting only the southwest third, the western Cantabrian coast and the Galician coast, where only cloudy intervals are expected. .
In general,
showers will tend to subside or stop at the end of the day
, except in the northeast of the peninsula and the Balearic Islands, and may even strengthen at the end in the extreme northeast of Catalonia.
In the Canary Islands, there will be cloudy intervals, without ruling out some weak and occasional rains in the north.
Also during the day,
morning
fog banks
may be produced
in the interior of Galicia and the Cantabrian area, without ruling out coastal fogs on the Galician west coast, and there will be the possibility of haze in height in the Balearic Islands and Catalonia.
With regard to temperatures, they will experience a decrease in Galicia, both plateaus and eastern Catalonia, while little change is expected in the rest.
Finally, wind will blow from the west in the Strait and from the northeast on the eastern coast of the peninsula, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands, with a light wind prevailing in the rest, although with strong or very strong gusts in storm areas.
Weekend
Looking ahead to the last days of the week, the weather will already be calmer, although on
Friday and Saturday there will still be
stormy
showers
on Friday in the Balearic Islands in the early hours and, from noon, both Friday and Saturday, clouds of evolution that will lead to showers, which will be accompanied by storms, some of them intense in parts of the northern and eastern thirds of the Peninsula, without ruling it out in mountainous areas of the center.
On Sunday, the arrival of a front to the northwest will leave rains in Galicia, Asturias and northwest of Castilla y León, while slightly cloudy skies will predominate in the rest of the Peninsula, without ruling out any storm in the afternoon in mountain areas and surroundings. .
However, temperatures during Friday, Saturday and Sunday will rise, and may exceed 34º C, already facing Sunday, in the valleys of the Tagus, in the Guadalquivir and possibly also in points of the Cantabrian and Basque coast.
Emergency in Vinaròs
The Emergency Coordination Center of the Generalitat
maintains this Thursday the Emergency situation 1 in Vinaròs
(Castellón) and the Pre-emergency situation 1 in Castellón and Valencia due to the episode of heavy rains, since although the forecast is that the weather improves, they can still storms occur during the morning, reports Efe.
The
storms
of the last hours have left outstanding records of accumulated rain in the Valencian regions of Los Serranos and Camp de Túria, since 120 liters per square meter have been collected in Pedralba, 96'6 in Ayódar, 93 in Buñol, 93 in Vilamarxant and 89'6 in Llíria.
The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) has established a yellow warning for rains that can
accumulate up to 20 liters per square meter
in an hour in the provinces of Alicante and Castellón, and that can be accompanied by hail.
The storm sweeps Castellón from Valencia
The storms that formed in Valencia shortly before 14 pm on Wednesday and entered Castellón have
accumulated 20 to 30 l / m2 in less than an hour
in places like Atzeneta of the Maestrat, Benassal, Benafigos, Vilafranca or Castellfort, according Aemet.
The storms have been
sweeping the province from south to north
and have left heavy rainfall, especially in towns in the interior, Europa Press reports.
Evictions
The
strong waterspout
that discharged on Wednesday night in
Iniesta
(Cuenca), the strongest in recent years, has forced several residents to evict from their homes due to accumulations of water one meter high in some places.
Water accumulates in homes, garages and ground floors, and many neighbors have had to
cut off the electricity supply as a precaution
, said Pardo.
The water has also entered the nursing home, in the basement area, although it has not been necessary to transfer the residents in the end.
The
firefighters of Motilla del Palancar
have moved to the area to reduce water
, and the Provincial Council does not rule out mobilizing up to a dozen troops, according to sources from the Provincial Council, which have specified that neighbors with "shovel tractors" have told Efe. they have participated in some evictions.
In addition, the Junta has mobilized
seven troops with a fire engine and a ground brigade
, based in Almodóvar del Pinar, in addition to a night mobile patrol.
Iniesta is a town of about 4,400 inhabitants of La Manchuela Cuenca.
More than 80 people who were evacuated from their homes due to the
floods in Montsià
(Tarragona) remain this Thursday morning in a hotel or in municipal facilities, while the alert is still activated after the rains on Wednesday.
In
Alcanar
there are a total of 77 evacuees, Civil Protection explained in a tweet collected by Europa Press: 58 in the Carlos III hotel, 5 in Montecarlo and 14 in the Municipal Pavilion.
In
Ulldecona
, six people are still staying at the Bonlloc hotel due to the flood emergency.
On the other hand, Endesa has reported that most of the electricity supply problems in the area have been resolved, according to Protecció Civil.
Train circulation
Adif suspended the circulation of trains
between Toledo and Madrid
and between Tarancón and Huete
yesterday afternoon
as a result of the strong storms, as reported by the railway administrator.
In this way, the high-speed line that connects the regional capital with Madrid has been closed to traffic.
According to the information shared by Adif,
one of the station platforms is completely flooded
, making the circulation of trains unviable.
In addition, the circulation of trains between
Tarancón and Huete
, in the province of Cuenca,
has also been suspended this Wednesday afternoon
, as a result of the storms.
This suspension affects the trains that connect Aranjuez with the towns of Tarancón and Huete.
At the moment Adif has not specified when these two sections affected by the DANA that are taking place this Wednesday in different parts of Castilla-La Mancha will be reopened to traffic.
Sánchez and Casado, express their solidarity
The head of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, yesterday showed his solidarity to all the territories affected by the rains of the last hours and has
asked
citizens for
"maximum precaution"
.
In his Twitter account, he has referred to the isolated depression at high levels (DANA) that has left
around 9,000 lightning strikes and heavy rains
in parts of the Community of Madrid, Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y León and Navarra.
In some points such as
Alcanar
in Tarragona, the storm has discharged
232 liters per square meter
, 77 of them in just 30 minutes, according to data from the Catalan Meteorological Service (SMC).
In addition, Alcanar has suffered floods in Catalonia in the regions of Montsià and Baix Ebre, in Tarragona.
The leader of the PP, Pablo Casado, has also expressed his solidarity and support to those affected in all the communities, "both on the roads and in the municipalities where floods and floods are originating and basic services have been cut off," he indicated.
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