It had been warned since Monday, with METEOCAM activated from 11:00 p.m. in the province of Albacete due to the orange warning due to heavy rain. This morning the town of Letur, in the Sierra del Segura of Albacete, was hit by a huge flood, as reported by some users through the social network X.
It turns out that the government of Castile-La Mancha today raised the alert level. At 3 p.m. this Tuesday, the Specific Risk Plan for Adversive Meteorological Phenomena (METEOCAM) was activated, in emergency operational phase 1 in the province of Albacete.
The escalation of this Plan is motivated by the unfavorable evolution of the episodes of rain and storms forecast by the National Meteorological Agency (AEMET), which intensely affected the city of Letur, in order to make available intervention resources all means assigned. at METEOCAM.
The municipality of Letur, belonging to the judicial district of Hellín, is located in the Sierra del Segura and has almost a thousand inhabitants. It is a municipality with a lot of weight in rural tourism, because in the neighboring streams there are places with caves, waterfalls and bathing areas.
Sources from the Provincial Delegation of Albacete, an institution that this afternoon canceled its institutional agenda, have confirmed that the firefighters of the province of Sepei are working in the Sierra del Segura to deal with the situation both in this municipality that in Molinicos, and this afternoon it is expected that this data will be offered on the impact of storms that also cause significant flooding in streams and rivers in the area.
The torrential rains that occur in this mountainous area also affect the problems of landslides on the roads, as in one of the CM-3206 tunnels at the height of the Palomar Bridge-Fuensanta Reservoir (Yeste), for example. It is recommended not to do this. travel unless strictly necessary.
Users also collect images of hail in the province of Albacete, between Molinicos and Los Collados.
The orange warning has also been activated in the Serranía de Cuenca. In the rest of the autonomous community there is a yellow warning due to the rains.
In the capital Cuenca, sports facilities were closed, in response to forecasts for this afternoon from 6 p.m., the time when the greatest intensity of rain is expected.
