Until a day ago, both the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) as Meteorological Service of Catalonia (Meteocat) they anticipated that the DANA (isolated depression at high levels) would unload in Catalonia and the rest of the this of the Iberian Peninsula. However, in the last hours the predictions have changed. It seems that the “abundant and large” rainfall will affect the center and south of Spain rather than the east: they will not be as intense as had been said, neither in Murcia, nor in the Valencian Community, nor in Catalonia.
sarora sarrocathe director of Meteocat, in an interview in EL PERIÓDICO, assures that this change in direction of the rains It’s not good newsbefore the persistent drought that is maintained: “Ideally, the DANA would have left abundant rains without causing material damage, but for the rains to pass by is bad news”.
“Ideally, the DANA would have left abundant rains without causing material damage”
Sarai Sarroca, Meteocat
sarroca explains that the rains last weekend were key, although they had no direct effect on the state of the reserves. Because? “After two very dry months, the first drops of water that fall are retained by the ground, in need of humidity. And this is what happened with the last episode. Now that the earth has already begun to make spongeis when a new wave of rains would be appropriate, which would already have more impact in rivers, reservoirs and aquifers”, explains the director of the Meteorological Service of Catalonia.
Critical moment
The Meteocat warns that the current drought It is already the worst of the century in Catalonia, at least from the point of view pluviometric: “The shortage from 2004 to 2008 was longer, but in between, there were more relatively wet months. Now, the aridity begins to be systematic and the rains that have fallen (those of May and June and those of the last weekend) they do not reverse the situation.”
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The state of the reservoirs has not decreased as much as 15 years ago, since the internal basins resist Thanks to the restrictions and the extraordinary uses of reclaimed and desalinated water, it ensures the Catalan Water Agency (ACA). “The moment is critical, we are concerned about the state of the vegetation and the death of trees,” he details. sarroca.
“The Catalonia of the future It will be much more arid than the one we have known to date. we must be very careful when analyzing the pastto be able to rigorously explain the future that is coming”, adds the director of Meteocat, who insists on the need of rainsnow that the usual one is about to open autumnal window: “If not, the terrain will dry again and when it rains again, the same will happen this past weekend”.