The National Meteorological Agency has warned of the arrival of a storm that could bring heavy, “widespread and persistent” rain this week in the Valencian Community and the Balearic Islands from Tuesday. This is the “most likely” scenario and will last until Wednesday and Thursday, according to a press release published this Sunday.
AEMET has therefore issued this opinion which affects the region which is still suffering the effects of the DANA of October 29, which has already caused more than 200 deaths and countless material damage. The national agency attributes the new storm to the arrival of a mass of cold air coming from northern Europe and which will reach the peninsula on Tuesday evening.
“It is likely that it will end up isolating itself as a DANA or cold storm around the Mediterranean or the south of the peninsula from Wednesday 13th, remaining in our environment until Saturday 16th,” the statement said. of AEMET.
The Emergency Center 112 of the Valencian Community also echoed the AEMET announcement and reported a flow rate of /m2 and locally more than 200 l/m2”.
The State Agency adds that the increase in instability that this storm will cause will also be accompanied by an entry of humid air from the Mediterranean, “it is therefore likely that heavy and persistent rains will occur” both in areas of the Balearic Islands as well as on the Mediterranean slopes.
It is not excluded that the storm leaves heavy precipitation in parts of the Cantabrian Sea in the center of the peninsula, as well as snow in mountain systems. AEMET experts also assure that “there is great uncertainty” regarding the final position of this storm and, therefore, “the distribution and quantity of precipitation”.
The timeline of the storm
Tuesday 12: The most likely scenario with which AEMET works is that the rains begin on Tuesday in the Mediterranean area, with greater probability in the south of the Balearic archipelago, especially in the Pitiusas, without excluding other points of the Mediterranean coast. They are also likely to occur in the Cantabrian Sea and the northern Pyrenees, with snow in mountainous areas.
Wednesday 13. From Wednesday onwards, precipitation is likely to spread across much of the peninsula, as snow in mountain systems, although levels will gradually increase.
“In uncertainty”, says AEMET, on this day they are expected to be more intense and persistent in parts of the Balearic Islands and the Mediterranean slope, notably north of Cape La Nao at the beginning and, later, at northern Valencian Community and the coasts and pre-coastal areas of Catalonia and, with less probability, on the Andalusian Mediterranean coast. It is not excluded that heavy and persistent rains will also occur in parts of Murcia, the Cantabrian Sea and the center of the peninsula.
Saturday 16: It is likely that from this day on, the precipitation will begin to lose intensity in the Mediterranean area and move towards the Atlantic slope, although AEMET recalls that the uncertainty over the evolution of the episode is “very high”.
