The second day of the episode of the much-needed rainy has affected much of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area by surprise in the form of storm during the afternoon of Sunday.
About 5:30 p.m. Meteorological Service of Catalonia has issued a warning of danger by intensity of rain and violent weather in the Baix Llobregat, Barcelonès and Vallès Occidental counties. In the co-capital of this last region, Terrassa, 34 liters had been collected in less than an hour -27 liters in just 30 minutes-, in Castellbisbal a total of 26 liters in 30 minutes and at the Fabra observatory in Barcelona 24.5 liters in the same period of time.
This heavy rain situation It has caught most of the citizens by surprise. who live in one of the three most populated regions of Catalonia, where together they add up to almost 4 million inhabitants.
A Castellbisbal they have arrived als 26 mm in 30 minutes. In Terrassa they have arrived to overcome 30 mm in 30 minutes. They have registered 30.7 mm and have left images with these pic.twitter.com/bMd1sJQYRW
—Meteocat (@meteocat) April 30, 2023
Thus, the Catalan Transit Service has reported stoppages and retentions on the AP-7 between Castellví de Rosanes and Castellbisbal due to the difficulty in driving on the road due to the lack of visibility caused by the rain curtain. The Rondas and the accesses to Barcelona have also been affected by the waterspout.
For their part, fans of Spanish who attended the transcendental league match against Getafe at the RCD Stadium of Cornellà They have had to seek refuge on the porches of the enclosure to try to protect themselves from the rain.
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Rainfall has also been noticeable in Barcelonacausing the suspension of performances for International Jazz Day on Paseo de Gràcia and adding another point of nervousness and uncertainty experienced by Bruce Springsteen fans ahead of the concert that the American musician is to offer tonight at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys.
The delay in the opening of the doors to access the venue has caused a hundred of his followers who were queuing to end up completely soaked.
The forecast is that the performance of the ‘Boss’, unlike that of Friday, will be marked by sporadic showers, although, in principle, without the intensity of those this afternoon.
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The downpour has therefore been very important to take into account and adds to the rainfall last Saturday that concentrated in the headwaters of the Ter and Llobregat. Rainfall that does not satisfy the need for water in a period of extreme drought, which still accumulates a deficit of 30% -in the case of the Ter- and 26% -in the Llobregat-, but which at least means a change script before what until a few days ago was a long-term scenario of lack of rain.
The forecast, according to meteorological models, is that the beginning of the week there are also precipitations in the north-eastern half of Catalonia, with showers that can present locally in the form of storms on the central coast, Costa Brava and Pre-coastal, and that return at the end of the week to start another episode of rain that would last until the middle of the month.