A new Dana arrives in Valencia- It will arrive just when eleven months of the flood are completed in which 229 people died and devastated a good part of the province of Valencia. Heavy rains will also affect the north of the province of Castellón and south of Catalonia, specifically to the province of Tarragona.
Until noon Aemet had left alerts at the orange level, but in the last part it has raised the level to red. And there are no more colors. The notices are given and the municipalities have begun to decree the suspension of the classes. The meteorological situation is “Potentially dangerous between Sunday 28 and Tuesday 30”, Aemet said.
This is the case of Valenciathat with orange level, and complying with the new protocols, he said that the 19 schools would be closed that the paticova (flood plan) considers flood but also the distances. By raising the level to red, the forecast is that the rest of the centers are also closed as well as all those in areas where maximum alert has been activated.
Aemet has explained that the exhuracán Gabrielleturned into storm extroatropicalthe peninsular southwest will travel and predominate cloudy skies or covered in the peninsula and rainfall advancing from west to east and affecting most of the territory being unlikely at the southeast end and in the northern peninsular center.
The Autonomous Emergency and Interior Secretary, Irene Rodríguez, has made an appeal this Sunday so that all administrations take the necessary preventive measures in advance and that the population is informed before the episode of “important rains” that begins today in the Valencian Community.
Regarding Catalonia, in the Central Depression of Lleida and Tarragona accumulated rainfall is planned today in an hour 40 liters per square meter and up to 80 liters in just 3 or 4 hours. More than 40 liters per square meter can be collected in an hour in addition to the northern coast of Tarragona and 60 on the southern coast of this province while the accumulations will be up to 120 liters per square meter in just three or four hours. On the other hand, in the Preliteral South of Tarragona will accumulate 80 liters per square meter in an hour and up to 120 in just 3 or 4 hours.
The president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illahe has asked for “maximum caution” before the warning for heavy active rains for this Sunday in Catalonia. In a note in the social network X he asked to avoid unnecessary displacements and flood areas and follow the recommendations of civil protection.