The Meteorological Service of Catalonia (SMC) has issued a warning for violent weather for the southern counties of Tarragona that affects Baix Camp, Baix Ebre, Montsià and Ribera d’Ebre and also for those of Central Catalonia and the central pre-coastal in which the Anoia counties are involved , Alt Penedès, Bages Baix Llobregat and Vallès Occidental.
This notice implies possibility of hailstorms with stone more than two centimeters in diameter, winds over 90 km/h and, more remotely, the origin of tornadoes and thermal blowouts.
Precisely, it is being in the region of Anoia where the main effects on road traffic due to hailstorms are taking place. The highway A-2at Bruc, is the main point of these incidences with low visibility due to heavy stone precipitation between km 555 and 565.
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In addition, it is expected heavy rainy afternoon both in the extreme south of Catalonia and in the northeast.
The provinces of Tarragona and Girona would be the most affected by the rainfall, although it is not ruled out that the storms at the local level will affect points in Central Catalonia, the eastern Pyrenees and the entire pre-coastal and coastal sector.