Rainy season in Spain: Aemet lifts the last red notices in Tarragona and Castellón

The most adverse phase of the strong storm of rain, storms and showers, which began on Thursday and will continue until Wednesday, has already passed. At noon this Friday, as planned, the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) has lifted the last red warnings that affected Tarragona and Castellón after exceeding 250 liters per square meter accumulated in points of the first province and 170 in the second. There are warnings in 10 communities: orange for rain and storms in Andalusia, the Balearic Islands and Murcia; orange for rain and yellow for storms in Catalonia and the Valencian Community, and yellow for both phenomena in Aragon, Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y León, the Community of Madrid and Extremadura. Civil Protection has sent new ES-Alert messages to citizens of the Baix Ebre and Montsià regions, in Tarragona, to report significant flooding in the area and to order the confinement of these localities.

In the coming days “unstable weather will continue with the possibility of showers accompanied by storms in the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands,” predicts Aemet spokesperson Rubén el Campo. Over the weekend, these precipitations "may still be very intense in areas of the Mediterranean area and, starting Monday, they will affect the west of the peninsula more" and all this with temperatures that will be "generally mild, somewhat above normal for the time of year."

The Aemet expects that the probability of very strong storms and showers will continue on the coasts of southern Catalonia, the Valencian Community, throughout Murcia, Almería, Ibiza and Formentera. “These intense showers can lead to local flooding and sudden flooding of riverbeds, in addition to hail and very strong gusts of wind,” says the agency's spokesperson, Rubén del Campo.

The first vice president and counselor of the Presidency, Health and Emergencies of Andalusia, Antonio Sanz, has announced the activation of the Emergency Plan for the Risk of Floods in emergency phase, operational situation 1, in view of the warnings for rain and storms this Friday in Almería, Granada, Jaén, Córdoba, Seville and Huelva.

This Friday, the Firefighters of the Generalitat rescued 18 people in their vehicles in Terres de l'Ebre, in Tarragona, as a result of the flooding due to the intense rains that have fallen since yesterday, as reported by the support inspector deployed to the area, Oriol Cobella. This morning the troops had to remove people from their cars who were trapped with the water “at the level of the rearview mirror”, especially in municipalities such as Ulldecona, Santa Bàrbara or Alcanar. They have also assisted people trapped in buildings and have attended to incidents due to water entering houses or falling trees.

The collapse of the western collector of l'Albufera, due to the intense rainfall recorded in recent hours, has caused the release of sewer traps and flooding in the commercial area of ​​Alfafar and problems on the service road of the Silla runway. According to the mayor of Alfafar, Juan Ramón Adsuara, the western collector of the Albufera has collapsed due to accumulated rain and small floods are occurring in the commercial area.