“A year of precipitation now falls in one day”: why such a deluge in Spain?

Spain is bracing itself for hundreds of liters of rainfall in the coming days, while the soil is already completely saturated with water. The Spanish weather service has therefore declared code red and warns of exceptional rainfall and risk of flooding. HLN science expert Martijn Peters explains how Storm Leonardo will hit hard with the help of an atmospheric river, which regions expect the most precipitation and how problematic the situation is.

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