Some municipalities in the province of Malaga have already started to experience flooding. The new DANA announced for this Wednesday by the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) is already above the Mediterranean coast and is already causing the first torrential rains in Malaga, where the red alert is active until 11:59 p.m. this Wednesday. “The danger is extreme. Rivers overflow and flooding may occur. “A lot of caution!” Aemet reported on his social networks.
DANA enters from east to west. In fact, at the moment, a large downpour is affecting the Axarquía area of Malaga, where already on Tuesday some 3,000 people were preventively evicted from their homes located on the banks of the Guadalhorce River, as well as in Coín. In the capital Malaga it started to rain around eleven in the morning and it will arrive later in the Guadalhorce region.
Streams began to fill municipalities such as Victory Cornerwhere they circulate with a lot of water and mud. In this town, as in Los Romanes, Cártama or Almogía, the streets are full of water and it is practically impossible to move around. In Marbella, in addition, a sea sleeve could be observed this morning, a clear symptom of the atmospheric instability that exists in the south of the peninsula.
The intense rains that occurred this Wednesday in the province of Malaga have already left more than 40 liters in some points like the Benamargosa River (47.3), the town of Coín (42.2), located in the Guadalhorce Valley, and 32 in the municipality of Alfarnatejo, belonging to the Axarquía region.
The red notice due to heavy rains left an unusual impression on the streets of Malaga which could well remind us of the worst period of confinement due to the covid-19 virus: closed businesses, practically empty streetsThere are virtually no cars or other means of transportation. In fact, the metro suspended its services this Wednesday due to the forecast of heavy rain.
Considering the possibility overflow of the Campanillas river Due to the intensification of the rains between 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m., following instructions from the Junta de Andalucía, homes located on the banks of the said river, in the municipality of Campanillas, will be evacuated.
Tanks
According to the Hidrosur network, dependent on the Council, the Guadalhorce Riverduring its passage through Cártama, 20.5 liters per square meter have been recorded so far today. In the Viñuela reservoir, the one with the largest capacity in the province of Malaga and located in an area particularly affected by drought, 18.8 liters fell, concentrated in a single hour.
The rains are torrential in many places: in CoinFor example, 15.9 liters per square meter was recorded in the last hour and 26.9 liters in the previous hour, while in Alfarnatejo It was 23.9 liters in just one hour.
The Malaga regions of Axarquía, Costa del Sol and Guadalhorce entered red notice at 10:00 a.m. due to extreme irrigation due to the forecast of heavy rain of up to 120 liters per square meter in twelve hoursaccording to the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet).
The red notice will extend, in principle, until 11:59 p.m. this Wednesday. The area of Antequera It’s an orange warning and Ronda is a yellow warning.
Rail service
The rail service of Average distance between Malaga and Seville It was suspended this Wednesday, coinciding with the red warning due to rain in the Málaga regions of Axarquía, Costa del Sol and Guadalhorce, while Málaga Airport maintains “normality” for the moment .
The Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puente, announced the suspension of the rail service that covers the route Malaga-Antequera-Seville via social network
Previously, Puente had highlighted, in response to the red warning due to heavy rains in Malaga, that “caution is never too much“. “Because if you’re careful and you make a mistake, you’ll have wasted a few hours of your life. If you do things right, you will have saved her,” he wrote.
