The Aemet activates the red alert in Valencia due to torrential rains of up to 180 liters per square meter

The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) has updated its weather forecast for the next few hours and has decreed a red alert in the province of Valencia due to torrential rains, which could be up to 180 liters per square meter, a situation that it maintains for this Wednesday. and tomorrow Thursday. This new alarm occurs just fifteen days after the storm devastated several Valencian regions, hitting Horta Sud and towns such as Utiel or Chiva and causing the death of more than 200 people.

Emergencies of the Generalitat Valenciana, whose management of DANA fifteen days ago has been highly questioned, has sent a message through the Es-Alert system to the mobile phones of the Horta Sud towns this afternoon, around 5 p.m., in which they communicated a Civil Protection alert due to the new episode of rain, restricting the traffic of private vehicles, “except essential, in municipalities affected by the flooding of Rambla del Poyo, Río Magro and southern districts de València” from 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday and until 6:00 p.m. on Thursday.”