The experts were already announcing it: DANA would not abandon us until at least Sunday. In fact, the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) was already announcing orange and yellow alerts in the south of Catalonia and the Valencian Community. However, this Sunday, the agency has also raised the risk rating in the Region of Murcia to orange and has issued a red notice for the entire province of Almería, specifying that “torrential rains” and “possible overflows of riverbeds and rivers” are expected. “floods.” «The danger is extreme! “Do not travel unless it is strictly necessary!” they indicate in the statement released through social networks.
RED NOTICE | Torrential rains in the province of Almería.
Possible overflows of channels and flooding. The danger is extreme! Do not travel unless it is strictly necessary!
In other areas of the Mediterranean the orange warning persists: significant danger. pic.twitter.com/LbYNrAxz42
— AEMET (@AEMET_Esp) November 3, 2024
For its part, the service Emergencies 112 has activated its plan “against the risk of floods” in the “pre-emergency, operational situation 0” phase. The declaration of the red level supposes, according to 112, that “the danger is EXTRAORDINARY“: “Vulnerable assets and population or in exposed areas could suffer very serious catastrophic impacts.”
Specifically, they point out the Almeria areas of Almanzora, Los Vélez, Nacimiento and Tabernas as the most dangerous. “Caution and avoid travel,” the service indicates. Quantities of 40 liters per square meter are expected in one hour, and a cumulative amount that could reach 100 liters in 12 hours.
The difficult task of predicting a DANA
The precision of prediction models in the case of phenomena such as DANA is reduced to one week in advance, although to be accurate and know exactly the location, the time is reduced to one or two days. «You can know what will happen, although not how much rain it will leave, far from it. This is seen as the deadline approaches,” Rubén del Campo, Aemet spokesperson, explained to ABC.
Because DANA are a phenomenon that is difficult to predict due to their particular chaotic nature: “To sum it up, they have an erratic movement, so weather prediction models are not able to accurately predict where they are going to go until a short time later.” before”.
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