Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Aemet, Spain’s national weather agency, issued a heavy rain weather alert for the Spanish peninsula and the Balearic Islands yesterday that forecast “intense storms” and “persistent ...
Because of the Foehn effect, the southern slopes fall inside the rain shadow zone and so Green Spain contrasts starkly with the rest of Spain. The rainfall is generally abundant, exceeding 1,000 mm (39.4 in) and is fairly evenly spread out over the year, with the driest month above 30 mm (1.2 in), which is the minimum criteria for an oceanic ...
Disastrous floods have been reported throughout the history of Valencia, from the 14th century up to the contemporary period. [5] The 1957 Valencia flood was caused by a three-day cold drop (Spanish: gota fría) (which usually leads to heavy autumn rains in Spain and France); it overflowed the banks of the Túria river and devastated the city of Valencia.
The great Valencia flood on 14 October 1957 was the result of a three-day-long cold drop and caused the deaths of at least 81 people.. The Vallès floods on 25 September 1962 in the province of Barcelona were caused by a cold drop (gota fría), [7] producing heavy rain, overflowing the Llobregat and Besòs rivers.
Spain is reeling from its worst flooding in decades, after a year’s worth of rain fell in just hours this week in the country’s southern and eastern regions.. The storm began on Tuesday and ...
The deadly flooding that rocked Spain this week following intense, historic rainfall is so expansive and severe the area looked like an inland sea from space.. A year’s worth of rain fell in ...
The Conversation, Explainer: how ‘Spanish plume’ set off a heatwave in the UK; UK Weather Forecast: What is a ‘Spanish plume’ Netweather Blog: The Spanish Plume Arrives & An Increasing Risk of Thunderstorms; SkyWarn UK, Forecasting a Spanish Plume (June 2014) FMI Convective cloud features in typical synoptic environments: the Spanish plume
Two weeks after flash floods devastated eastern Spain, several areas are on alert again. Spain braces for torrential rain as new weather system reaches Med coast Skip to main content