DANA, which affects the eastern part of the Iberian Peninsula with great virulence, has left, for the moment, seven missing. Added to this are traffic jams on the roads, delays and cancellations at airports, as well as unprecedented flooding. And it must be emphasized that this violent storm is not yet over. In other words, the storm will die down, but It is still active and has hours left.
In the coming hours, the alert is expected to be transferred to the regions of Castellón and Catalonia because this DANA rotates counterclockwise, moving storms toward the center. The other point you connect is Murcia with Extremadura, with storms moving from the southwest to the northeast, a movement that will leave water behind. The waters that fall into the center do not do so with such intensity and The systems will not be as powerful as those in the Mediterranean because they don’t have the sea next to them to give their opinion.
Regarding the origin and virulence of storms, it should be noted that they are due to a mesoscale convective system. That is to say a storm very organized and powerful which does not stop feeding because the wind from the east, from the Mediterranean, does not stop entering. It’s static, and that’s the problem: it reacts all the time and the water keeps falling. What happens? It has been raining continuously in places for several hours, making the crisis situation worse and worse.
These storms had never occurred in these cities and they were certainly historic. The data must be compared, but It’s absolutely extraordinary. An out-of-reach rarity was already visible on forecast maps.
