And the scourge of the second destructive damage in just two weeks continues, for the third day. After , this Thursday it continues its slow path towards the southwest, which will cause heavy rains to reach western Andalusia, while the punishment has eased in two points of the Mediterranean, Valencia and Malaga. The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) has lifted the red warning that was in effect over both cities after seven in the morning, earlier than initially planned. Thus, at this time the warnings are maintained in five communities, which is orange, the second level of a scale of three, in four Andalusian provinces – Málaga, Cádiz, Huelva and Seville – and in the Valencian Community, while the warning is yellow, the lowest level, in Almería, Córdoba, Granada, Ávila, Extremadura and A Coruña. In the last few hours, the notices have been lifted in Catalonia.
On Wednesday, 82 in Pego (Alicante) and 82 in Granada and, so far today, they have been collected in various points in Malaga. In the , Aemet explains that the dana continues to move slowly towards the southwest this Thursday while evolving into a BFA or isolated cold storm, another type of low pressure area. Rubén del Campo, spokesperson for Aemet, highlights that, due to this new position, instability will extend to western Andalusia.
🔴 The red warning (extreme danger) persists in Malaga until 8:00 on Thursday. In the province of Valencia, until 12:00.
🟠 Orange warnings (important danger) in large areas of the south and west of Andalusia. The rains will be very heavy and persistent.
— AEMET (@AEMET_Esp)
“It will continue to rain in the provinces of Valencia and Malaga, again with accumulations of more than 100 or 150 liters per square meter,” he details. Furthermore, on the coast of Valencia, these 150 liters can be exceeded in a few hours. Meanwhile, in the area around the Strait, as well as in the provinces of Seville, Huelva and the rest of Cádiz, it is possible that “80 to 100 will be collected throughout the day.”
In addition, rainfall is expected in other areas of the Mediterranean area and the southwestern quadrant of the peninsula, but of less intensity, as well as significant irrigation, “although in principle without special adversity,” in the area around the Central system, especially in the north of Cáceres. and in the south of Ávila, with a snow level that will rise because temperatures “are going to rise significantly throughout Spain.”
On Friday, the BFA “would tend to remain quasi-stationary in the southwest of the Peninsula, which will cause the “locally intense showers to still persist in the Mediterranean area, but with less adversity,” while rainfall will be more abundant in Extremadura, the area of the narrow, bordering the central system and western Andalusia. “In Huelva, Cádiz and Seville and the Strait, they could be locally very strong,” the expert emphasizes.
In the rest of the country, “the weather will be more stable and temperatures will continue to rise with an environment that is once again temperate for the season”, with more than 20° in the Cantabrian Sea and almost 25° in the Guadalquivir valley. Only three will remain on the map.
On Saturday, the moment in which the Aemet already closes the episode, and on Sunday, “the situation will tend to be calmer”, although there will still be possible rains, already weak in general, in the west of the Peninsula. The weather will be much calmer on the Mediterranean side where, finally, it will have stopped raining. Temperatures will be even higher, with more than 25° in the Guadalquivir.
