Severe weather warning
 

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!

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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.

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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.

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A damp squib here.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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

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Here's another Gota Fria warning.

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

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We started to experience the Gota Fria at five this morning

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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:ohmy: i have backwashed my pool to take the expected rain fall:scaredhair:

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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

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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...

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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.

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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.

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Why do you backwash the pool and not just empty it to waste?

Just wondering why?

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Because it an infinity pool,the lower over flow tank is operated automatically by floats, to much water stars the pumps from the over flow to the pool,to much rain fall fills the pool that goes in to the over flow tank that over flows and turn,s on the pump.i think it,s a design fault. there are many trees and vegetation close by the pool and over flow tank which fill with rubbish and the filter get,s clogged up so i backwash and rinse.

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I have been in Spain nearly 20 years and never heard thunder or seen lightening like we had this morning at 6 am (just north-west of Alicante city) truly biblical and to be honest frightening as I am in a new (to me) house but the flat roof drained well and now you would think we are living in a different world with the sun coming through. More forecast for next weekend.

Stay safe everyone, don't take risks with cars etc and watch the forecasts to be prepared.

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It is the worst since 1987. 5 killed so far and it's now heading for Madrid.

https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/09/13...28_120540.html

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Pictures on my facebook are showing some real devastation in Costa Blanca South round the Campoamour area with huge amounts of water and some businesses being washed away. We lived at Playa Flamenca, and some pictures from the shopping centre there show a number of problems. The big problem seems to be that many of the natrual run off dry water courses have been built on, so they act a bit like dams.

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Yes the amount of building in that zone (I lived there years ago) is totally excessive and so all that tarmac and concrete mean the rain quickly becomes a river and flows to the lowest points causing devastation en route.

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Hi Fred, Can a weather thread be started where when we log in you can say what the weather is like in your area.Or as you did a weather warning or would this not be relevant,just a question thanks

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Another Gota Fria on the way.

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

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Bah! Seems the world is full of difficult weather patterns now.

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I hope it's not as bad as the last one. umbrellas do not work?

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The forecast for north Alicante has calmed down a bit and not a drop so far..........

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North Valencia is the area with the biggest risk.

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Stair rods here since about 8 this morning the forecast in for much worse to come.

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For every one to look try www.windy .com interesting

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No change from yesterday still stair rods.Winds picking up a bit.

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Same here in Benidorm. Heavy rain all night and windy dark sky this morning. Forecast heavy rain all day. 😐

Steve

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North Alicante.....constant showers and strong gusty winds - not what I would call gota fria, no thunder/lighting (but forecast for later)

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The Met Office has issued a red warning for the east coast.

http://www.aemet.es/documentos_d/enp...6_p52tesp1.pdf

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80kmph winds, with predicted gusts of over 140kmph, with rain, snow, and seaswell of 6-8m. going to be a rough evening / night

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Massive rain falls very strong winds(two umbrellas total destroyed in minutes)Never seen the jalon river running so fast.Also lighting and thunder, and the valley floor covered in water.but it's nice dry and warm in front of the tv.