The day of this Monday will go down in the history of the meteorological records of the Valencian Community and Murcia. The strong storms that have been registered in the east of the peninsula from the morning point have left practically unpublished scenes in several points of these regions. As much as potentially dangerous for its inhabitants.
The streets of many towns have turned into mighty rivers that threatened to drag everything in its path. Examples of this extreme phenomenon have not been lacking along the entire cornice, as in Tíring (Castellón), but also in other places such as Tavernes de la Valldigna (Valencia) or in Jijona (Alicante).
In all these localities, more than 60 liters of water per square meter, with torrential rains punctually, according to the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet), when concentrating in a short space of time. That has been the case in Carcaixent, in Valencia, where 56 of the 62 liters dropped throughout the morning have fallen in just one hour: between 09:20 and 10:20.
The rains began to fall on the Valencian Community during the afternoon of last Sunday 25, when a storm discharged 42 liters per square meter in Morella (Castellón) in just a few hours. From that moment, the storm moved south until it reached Murcia, where Puerto Lumbreras or Mazarrón have been two of the worst hit points, receiving about 70 liters per square meter.
A “rare” phenomenon in July
Aemet herself has noticed this anomaly. “July is the driest month in the Valencian Community, although almost every year there is a local storm in the interior with some severe phenomenon associated with hail, a generalized episode of storms like today is rare in the month of July “, has underlined the regional account of the agency.
These episodes of generalized storms, they explain are usually common in August, especially in the second fortnight, but “rare in July”, although there are examples “very adverse in July”, like the one on the 25th of 1986.
Proof of this have been the records of the city of Alicante. There, this Monday has been the third wettest day of a July since 1938 with 26.4 liters per square meter, just 1.1 off the record. According to Aemet, in the Ciudad Jardín observatory, the days of July with the most accumulated precipitation to date in almost the last century have been July 20, 1993, with 27.5 liters per square meter, and July 15, 1977, with 26.8.
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