Alert in the Sierra: Madrid reports the mandatory use of chains in Navacerrada and Cotos and announces cuts on the roads by snow

The State Meteorology Agency (Aemet) keeps the yellow warning actively for heavy rains in the Madrid mountain range until 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, with a accumulated precipitation planned in twelve hours of forty liters per square meter. The forecast of the Aemet for tomorrow points the possibility of weak and showers throughout the community, which will be more intense and persistent in the mountains, and skies covered with fog in the morning in the high areas of the central system.

The snow level will dawn about 1,400 meters, but will rise to 2,000 at noon. In addition, weak frosts are expected in the Sierra Cumbres. The wind will blow between lazy and moderate, occasionally strong at noon in the southeast.

The 112 Emergency Service of Madrid has reported this morning that it is mandatory to use chains for cars and light vehicles that intend to circulate through the ports of Navacerrada (M-601) and Cotos (M-604), and has requested caution in the rest of the ports of the secondary network. He has also transferred that quotanieves machines are working in the areas affected by the snowfall.

The M-600 roads in El Escorial, between kilometer 10 and kilometer 14, and the M-611 in Rascafría have cut sections. Likewise, the Madrid service transfers that caution must be taken in the M-505 (alternative kilometer 32.5), the M-404 in Titulcia, at kilometer 46.3 by a water raft and the M-600 in Seville the New, also with a water raft.

The Security and Emergency Agency of the Community of Madrid (ASEM 112) yesterday activated the operational situation 1 of the Special Flood Plan (INUNCAM) for the rain forecast, the disembod of dams of the Canal de Isabel II and the Hydrographic Confederation of the Tagus (CHT) and the snow thaw situation in the Sierra in the next few days.

The Municipal Police of Madrid maintains the surveillance and control of the channels of Manzanares and Jarama. The regional agency recommends that citizens extreme precaution, not to approach the channels even to take photos, that it is reported from the state of the roads and of the time through the media and official sources and that they do not cross water rafts or moving channels. For its part, the CHT has recommended Monday on social networks caution in areas near the river channels and attention to civil protection notices and recommendations before the new Aemet notices for rains in the demarcation.

The Madrid City Council advises not to go to the not channeled areas of the Manzanares River, from Mingorrubio to the French bridge and informs that there are beacon points where the passage is prohibited.