Fred James

The Spanish Met Office has just issued a severe weather warning for parts of Eastern Spain, particularly Valencia and Murcia.

They are forecasting a DANA, often called "A Cold Drop" with thunderstorms and very heavy rain.

http://www.aemet.es/documentos_d/enp...5_p52tesp1.pdf

Time to get your cushions in!

Retired in Euskadi

Thanks Fred.

Here up north, looks as if we will be spared that.
It seems an increasing phenomenon for certain areas in Spain to suffer huge amounts of rainfall in a very short period.
Recently we were in southern Navarra and saw the damage in the area around Tafalla, where they had 200l in an hour, about 3 months ago. Unbelievable. Cars swept away, tractors too, not to mention huge trees (chopos/black poplars) uprooted like matchsticks.
I guess any rain is welcome in Murcia, but not all at once.

Fred James

It’s almost always on the East coast. Very occasionally you get a minor one on the south coast eastern end. It’s a well established weather phenomenon which always happens at roughly the same time. It can be devastating. It’s worth Googling it.

Notdunroamin

A damp squib here.

A thunderstorm with moderate rainfall, certainly nothing to get excited about.

el collado kid

hi all same here to, looks like clearing now chance of sun in the afternoon

Fred James

The warning was out for today as well. At the moment the Balearics seem to be getting plenty of rain.

The forecast was spot on in terms of where it would rain, but forecasting the quantity is much more hit and miss.

Notdunroamin

Well it made up for it at about 4 this afternoon.

Coming out of Orihuela Vega Baja hospital was faced with a ferocious wind driving inch diameter hailstones virtually horizontally giving way to torrential rain.

el collado kid

morning fred,well what can i say at 8.30 last night we were hit by an almighty storm,power outage ,thunder like i,ve never heard which not only shock the house but the whole valley, lighting that filled the hole valley with at least ten or more bolts at a time ,where we had no power it lit us up with the most brightest light i,ve ever seen, we watched in amazement, at 9.40 it was like it never happened, severe weather to say the least.forgot to say the rain even the pools over flow tank over flowed

Fred James

Here's another Gota Fria warning.

http://www.aemet.es/documentos_d/enp...7_p52tesp1.pdf

el collado kid

We started to experience the Gota Fria at five this morning

el collado kid

We are now in the calm before the real storm which is forecasted to start in the early hours with severe flooding if i,m still around i will let you know.an umbrella will not help i have backwashed my pool to take the expected rain fall

el collado kid

We are in our second calm period the rain fall has been tremendous,the rivers and bankles are flowing fast,the skies look angry and full of more rain,the storm is due to pass by on sunday

Bridie55

It is very frightening. We took a detour from our usual route from Bilbao to Almunecar to see the sights of Cartagena. My god the motorway yesterday afternoon was terrible and last night in Cartagena the storm all night non stop, never heard or seen anything like it. I just hope all the people in Murcia and above stay safe. The power of nature...

el collado kid

We were woken up at 6.30 am this morning by the storm a round us which i have never experienced before.Continues rolling thunder,like a military artillery barrage,continues sheet and forked lighting,once again the rain fall was phenomenal. at the moment another calm, i have just backwashed the pool again. After this experience this morning my thoughts are with all the people who are suffering because of this storm. I think were about to get another downpour.

Fredbargate

I was woken up at 6:00 am by a strange noise coming from the aircon unit in my bedroom.
Eventually I realised it was from the water drain pipe in the aircon which takes a tortuous route and was air blowing up the drain pipe.
The sound was the gurgling of air passing through the water in level sections of this pipe, a first.
No rain but a vicious wind.