Aragon, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia and the Valencian Community are scheduled to activate from 15.00 this Sunday the orange alert (important risk) due to very strong rains, up to 40 liters in one hour, because of an extortopical storm “potentially dangerous” that will especially impact the south and east, with torrential intensity, from this Sunday until Tuesday. The Ebro Hydrographic Confederation (Che) has warned of the possibility of taking place in the next hours grown up in ravines and minor channels in the basin, while the Valencia City Council has suspended classes for this Monday in the districts affected by the Dana and flood areas.
The State Meteorology Agency () this Sunday has asked for caution against possible floods in low and flood areas; The “situation is potentially dangerous,” he insisted. In addition to the previous communities on alert for rains, three others are also but in yellow (risk for certain activities); This is Andalusia (also under yellow warning by maritime temporary), Navarra and La Rioja.
In the central and south of Huesca, the Bajo Aragon de Teruel, the Ebro de Zaragoza, the central depression of Lleida and that of Tarragona, this Sunday precipitations accumulated in an hour of 40 liters per square meter and up to 80 liters in just three or four hours are planned this Sunday. 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.
In the southern prelite of Tarragona, 80 liters per square meter will accumulate in an hour and up to 120 in just 3 or 4 hours. Those amounts will also be collected on the northern coast of Castellón. In La Mancha Albacete the accumulations will be 30 liters per square meter in an hour and also in Hellín and Almansa (Albacete), in the Serranía de Cuenca and in La Mancha Cuna. Inside Valencia the accumulations will be 40 liters per square meter in an hour. On the northern coast of Castellón, up to 120 liters per square meter can be collected in twelve hours and may even reach those amounts in just three or four hours.
For its part, the Ebro Hydrographic Confederation (Che) has warned of the possibility of occurring in the next hours grown up in ravines and minor channels in the basin in Aragon, Catalonia, Valencian Community (Castellón), Navarra and La Rioja.
According to the agency, the notice is derived from the orange and yellow notices activated in the Aragonese community, Navarra and La Rioja, as well as in large part of Catalonia and in the province of Castellón, with torrential floods due to rains that could accumulate up to 40 liters per square meter (m²) in an hour, which could be extended from the afternoon of today until the morning of today.
Valencia suspends classes
The Autonomous Emergency and Interior Secretary of the Generalitat Valenciana, Irene Rodríguez, has made a call for all administrations to take the necessary preventive measures in advance and that the population is informed before the episode of “important rains” that begins this Sunday in the Valencian Community.
The Valencia City Council has activated the protocol planned for the orange alert for rains and yellow for storms for this Monday – decreed throughout the province – and has suspended classes in the distances affected by the Dana and flood areas.
Specifically, the educational centers in flood areas that this Monday will not have class are Ceip Camí de l’Horta (Benimàmet-Beniferri), Ceip José Senent (Masarrochos), IES Isabel de Villena (Valencia), Ceip Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (Valencia), Private Private of Music of El Palmar (Masarrochos), Center Stranger Valencia Montessori School (València), as detailed by the Consistory in a statement.
The schools that cancel their school activity in the distances are Center Privat Nuestra Señora del Rosario (València), Ceip forn d’Alcedo (Alcedo oven), Ceip Padre Manjón (Valencia), Private Escola de Music Santa Cecilia Castellar-Oliveral (Castellar-Oliveral), Private Escola de Música Castellar-Oliveral) Ravatxol (Castellar-oliveral) CEIP castellar-oliveral (Castellar-Oliveral), Center Privat First Cyle Sambori-Latorre (Valencia), Center Privat FP Cffolgado Valencia Rosa Llácer (Castellar-Oliveral), Center Privat Cic Formiguetes (València).
In the rest of the city’s schools, it is recommended to suspend outdoor activities in recreation areas and be transferred to interior areas. Sports activities of the Municipal Sports Foundation are also suspended outdoors; The parks and gardens of the city and the libraries that are inside, as well as the municipal cemeteries, and the climate emergency caes of Carmen that adds to the Caes de Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Benimaclet are closed.
From the City Council they recommend monitoring the alerts through the official communication channels of the Consistory, in which all the information will be updated.
