According to the Spanish meteorological agency Aemet, more than 100 millimeters of rain fell in some places in Catalonia. For a large part of the region, code red in force between 5 pm and 7 pm. The rain showers, which gave rise to a red weather warning, mainly found the Catalonia region. Citizens received emergency messages on their phone, while various infrastructures were hit hard. In a hospital in Barcelona, the current fell out, so it could not temporarily take on new patients. It also went wrong at the airport: an airplane on the way to the US returned after Hagel had caused damage to the nose of the aircraft.
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In Cubelles, a municipality in the Spanish province of Barcelona, two people were missing after the heavy rainfall that ravaged the area on Saturday evening. “According to the first information, they would have been carried by the River Foix,” which flows into the Mediterranean Sea, the fire brigade reports on X.
Train traffic throughout Catalonia – both high -speed trains and regional and local lines – stopped for hours. More than 70 people received help from the emergency services, although nobody was seriously injured. The red warning was lifted after two hours.
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The heavy rainfall also found other regions in the north and east of Spain, including Aragón – where soldiers of the emergency aid of the army were used – and Valencia. They also have to deal with heavy rainfall in France. In the south of France, in the Pyrénées-Orientales and Aude departments, Code Oranje is in force because of the rain and the risk of flooding.
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According to the Spanish weather institute Aemet, the extreme weather conditions are due to a Dana or an isolated depression at high altitudes that entails a lot of energy and moisture. This not only causes a decrease in temperatures, but also the chance of thunderstorms with severe gusts of wind and hen showers is increasing.