Five communities remain on alert this Friday due to heavy precipitation and storms expected during the day. In the case of some points in the Andalusian province of Huelva, the level is red, that is, the risk is extreme due to the intense rains which, in some cases, can accumulate up to 140 liters per meter square, as in Aljaraque.
In fact, the mayor of the capital of Huelva, Pilar Miranda Plata, shared a video on a complicated night in which the municipal and emergency services gave a magnificent response.” Likewise, he asked citizens to follow the instructions, as well as to respect “the recommendations during the day”. In the same spirit and by the same means , the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, spoke.
The Valencian Community is also on orange alert – a significant risk – which has suffered in recent days from the most devastating effects of DANA and where the number of deaths rises to 155 in this region. The rains will continue throughout this Friday, according to data from the National Meteorological Agency (Aemet).
The orange alert map is complemented by warnings in large areas of Andalusia, communities in the Balearic Islands and Catalonia, and Aemet has warned that in many places in these communities precipitation will again exceed 100 liters per square meter today. The community of Extremadura is on yellow alert, where rains will accumulate 15 liters per square meter in one hour.
Red notice in Huelva
The most important alerts are concentrated on the coast of Huelva and in Andévalo and Condado, in the province of Huelva, where forecasts indicate that they will accumulate. up to 140 liters per square meter during the early hours of the morning, although rain will continue to be intense and persistent throughout the day.
In the Valencian Community, the highest risk levels for this Friday are significant and are located on the south coast of the province of Valencia, where, according to forecasts, up to 52 liters per square meter will accumulate in one hour , due to Aemet specified that it was a “static convective cell” in the southern third of the area concerned by the alert (the southern coast of the province).
The alert is also orange (high risk) in the province of Castellón, where the alerts are concentrated in the northern interior of the province and on the coast, and in these cases The rains will also be very intense.with accumulations of up to 40 liters per square meter in one hour and 100 liters in twelve hours.
In Catalonia, the orange level is concentrated on the southern and pre-coastal coast of the province of Tarragona, where 40 liters per square meter will accumulate in one hour and up to 100 liters in twelve hours, according to Aemet data . In the Balearic Islands, an orange alert has also been activated due to heavy rains forecast in the Sierra de Tramuntana, to the north, northeast, interior and south of Mallorca; as well as on the island of Menorca. On these islands, precipitation will be approximately 50 liters per square meter in one hour and in some places 120 liters per square meter can be achieved in a few hours.
In addition to red and orange alerts, yellow level warnings have been activated in communities across Andalusia, Balearic Islands, Catalonia, Extremadura and Valencian Communityas the rains will also be very heavy in large areas of these regions, and in many places up to 60 liters per square meter will accumulate in twelve hours.
In addition to the warnings, Aemet published a message on the social network This will continue all weekend and the importance of checking road conditions before traveling and following Civil Protection recommendations.
“We are going to send a very clear message and we will leave it displayed. The meteorological emergency is not over. DANA is still over Spain”, published Thursday the delegation of Aemet in the Valencian Community, which published this message on its website.
Aemet has just published a message in which it reports that torrential rains are already recorded in cities like Cartaya, where 117 liters were collected per square meter in less than three hours; 70 of them in just one hour. “DANA will continue to cause adverse weather conditions today,” the weather agency warned.
The Generalitat has activated a telephone number for assistance to relatives of missing persons: 900 365 112. The authorities ask that this telephone number be reserved solely to provide information on the relative who cannot be reached. For emergencies, the number is always 112.
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