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New tragedy looms for already hard-hit Spanish region

The rubble has not yet all been cleared, thousands of people are still homeless and the last missing people have not yet been found, but Spain must already prepare for new apocalyptic weather.

Once again, the remarkable weather phenomenon DANA is upon us in Spain.

DANA stands for Depresión Aislada en Niveles Altos. Isolated high depressions (DANA) are common and particularly dangerous atmospheric phenomena in summer and autumn. They occur when a low-pressure system detaches from the currents around the Earth and starts flowing independently. Weather phenomenon DANA results from the combination of a high-altitude cold bubble with warm winds coming from the Mediterranean Sea. And that leads to severe storms.

And weather phenomenon DANA has been causing severe flooding in eastern Spain since late October. Then the Valencia area was hit the hardest, resulting in more than two hundred deaths. And now the Spanish weather service is warning of another DANA. 

Warnings are still in effect through Friday for parts of Valencia province, the Mediterranean Balearic Islands and parts of Galicia in the far northwest, Catalonia in the northeast and Andalusia in the south. Once again, very large amounts of precipitation may fall. “More than 100 to 120 liters per square meter may fall in 12 hours,” Aemet warns. 

(SR for Tagtik/Source: El Pais/Illustration picture: Jonathan Ford for Unsplash)

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