Aemet rules out unusual weather or atmospheric phenomena and sudden temperature variations

The State Meteorology Agency has affirmed that on the day of April 28, when a massive blackout took place that maintained without light, electricity or communications to all of Spain peninsular for more than 10 hours, “no unusual meteorological or atmospheric phenomenon was detected.” In a message on its social networks, the Aemet has completed that They did not occur either «Sudden variations of temperatures» in its entire stations network.

The cut also affected Portugal and other countries. Therefore, precisely, the Portuguese Operator Ren gave explanations about what happened. In a statement he said Monday in a statement to the possibility of occurring «Extreme variations in the interior of Spain». In the note, collected by Reuters, they affirmed that “anomalous oscillations in the very high voltage lines (400 kV), a phenomenon known as ‘induced atmospheric vibration'” had taken place.

From the moment the blackout occurred, different theories began to develop. Also to investigate the causes. Thus, the president of the European Council, António Costa, said that “so far” no indications had been registered that it was a cyber attack. In a message on social network X, he also added that he was working to find the cause.

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In the same line the executive vice president of the European Commission, Teresa Ribera, who, although she assured that this Monday had been one of the “most important” falls that the Spanish electrical system had suffered, there was “nothing” that allowed to aim to “boycott or cyber attack”.

Also, in Spain, for the moment there have been no indications that point to a cyber attack. Sources of the intelligence and information services consulted by ABC have assured that this would have been “neither the National Cryptological Center, nor the cyber -defense command have detected anything” that points to it.

Finally, Red Electrica has also ruled out cyber attack. “There has not been an intrusion,” they expressed on Tuesday at a press conference.

The president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, appeared for the second time after 23 hours on Monday. In his speech he explained how When half an hour spentjust at the time the blackout took place, they disappeared In just five seconds 15 gigawatts of generation in the system, which is equivalent to 60% of the total demand in the country.

This Tuesday, after 11 am in the morning, Red Electrica has given the operation of the electrical system in the Peninsula. “After overcoming the morning demand tip at 8.35 with 28,677MW, the night peak is expected at 9:10 p.m. with 31,200 MW,” they have expressed through a message in X.