Nearly 70% of Catalan municipalities are now considered high or very high risk areas for flooding and are therefore required to have a flood preparedness and action plan in case of heavy rain. This is according to the updated Inuncat plan, approved by the Catalan government on Tuesday, which raises the number of municipalities at risk to 656 (164 more than before). The remaining 231 municipalities are considered moderate or low risk; however, Civil Protection recommends that they also have their action plans ready. After 20 years in effect, the Inuncat plan has been updated to adapt to the effects of climate change. The new document—work on since the pandemic—includes a thorough review of the calculation criteria and the way warnings are communicated to the public. According to government and Civil Protection sources, the new criteria are already in place "internally," but they clarify that the official change and the implementation of the new system throughout the territory will take place "during the month of April," once all computer systems have been adapted.

On Thursday, the Llosa del Cavall reservoir presented an unusual sight: the dam began releasing water naturally through its spillway, creating a continuous waterfall of 2,000 liters per second from a height of 112 meters. This drop is equivalent to 80% of the height of the Sagrada Família or a thirty-story building. This spectacle, which lasted throughout the day, attracted local residents, who hadn't witnessed anything like it for eight years.

Heavy rains are affecting Catalonia this weekend, and Civil Protection issued an alert this afternoon to the telephones of 14 Catalan municipalities. Torrential rains in the northern part of the Barcelona area, the Maresme region, and both the Vallès Oriental and Vallès Occidental regions have prompted the Catalan government to issue an Es-Alert (Emergency Alert) for several towns and cities, some of the most populated: Badalona, ​​Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Sant Adrià de Besòs, Canovelles del Vallès, Martorelles, La Llagosta, Sant Fost de Campsentelles, Montcada i Reixac, Tiana, and Montgat.

Catalonia has experienced this Thursday another day of heavy rain which has caused road closures, disruptions to mobility, and flight cancellations. Civil Protection sent an alert to mobile phones Wednesday night in practically all coastal and pre-coastal areas, warning of torrential rain and urging caution while traveling. The rain began falling in the early hours of the morning and has been intensely soaking the entire Catalan coast and inland areas. The Catalan Fire Service responded to 377 calls by 1 p.m., mainly in the metropolitan area. By emergency region, most of the calls came from the North Metropolitan Region (213), which includes Vallès. The remaining calls came from the Girona Region (73), the South Metropolitan Region (41), Terres de l'Ebre (21), Lleida (17), the Central Region (8), and Tarragona (4). Most of the calls were for water accumulation in basements and garages, and for fallen trees. There were also reports of lightning strikes on trees in public areas and in some private gardens, and of people trapped in their vehicles by floodwaters, some with serious head injuries. The 112 emergency line received 924 calls. The Medical Emergency System (SEM) responded to a total of 22 incidents and dispatched ambulances to treat 26 people in person, none of whom sustained serious injuries. In the Gran Via tunnels in Sabadell, municipal police officers, with the assistance of firefighters, had to rescue several people from inside vehicles. Sabadell and Móra d'Ebre were among the hardest-hit areas. In Girona, later in the afternoon, several parking garages also flooded. Some schools have also been affected, such as Escola Bellaterra in Cerdanyola del Vallès. According to Anna Garcia, the school's principal, they received contradictory instructions, as classes were not suspended, but they were asked to be cautious and reduce their movement. "We had to put ourselves at risk to open the school," she asserted.

After passing through Catalonia without serious incidents, the storm is causing some flooding in the Valencian Community, where levels have already exceeded 350 liters per square meter in cities such as Gandia. The main downpours are occurring along the Valencian coastline, where rainfall is not constant but is torrential. Particularly notable are municipalities such as Oliva, Xeraco, Cullera, and Sueca, where several streets were flooded this afternoon. However, the fact that the storm is affecting towns near the sea—where rivers and gullies drain their water quickly—would rule out scenarios similar to those of last October's DANA, when the downpours were localized inland.

The intense rainfall that fell this Saturday in the Barcelona area reached more than 100 liters per square meter in the municipalities of Baix Llobregat and Vallès Occidental. All this water has dangerously increased the flow of rivers and streams and caused minor flooding, although no one has been injured by the storm so far.

Between Wednesday and Thursday, an episode of intense rainfall will arrive in various parts of Catalonia, and in some of these territories, the precipitation could reach torrential levels. In fact, the risk map for showers is colored orange (moderate level) and red (significant level) in areas near rivers and streams throughout the territory. Given this change in weather, Civil Protection urged the population to exercise caution this afternoon and evening when traveling on secondary roads and paths, or driving during the storm. Furthermore, authorities have not ruled out sending alerts to citizens' phones to protect themselves from the rain.

After 24 hours of intense searching, the Generalitat Firefighters have decided to raise the device to find the two people allegedly missing The search began on Saturday night in Cubelles, in the Garraf region, due to heavy downpours. Emergency services have confirmed that they do not plan to resume rescue efforts until new evidence emerges.

The afternoon of downpours closed yesterday with two people missing—who could be a woman and a child—dozens of flooded streets, inundated lowlands, overflowing rivers, and train service halted for more than three hours throughout Catalonia, forcing some 150 commuters to spend the night at Sants station. These are the direct consequences of the storms that swept across Catalonia this Saturday afternoon from the south and northeast. Up to 18 firefighters on land, as well as underwater, worked throughout Saturday to locate two people in Cubelles. The work stopped well into the night and resumed early Sunday morning.

The water has been turned on, and the taps at all the fountains in Ardenya have begun to gush forth and sparkle. They are like earrings amidst the mane of trickles of water that descend from the mountain. Gullies crisscross the paths, and streams gallop toward the hollow, magnetized by the brook below. If we were to cut down the forest, we would see that these trickles of water are the luminous shadows of the trunk and branches of a great, invisible tree in the sky.

The torrential rains that have fallen in recent hours in the Valencian Country have forced emergency teams to make overnight numerous rescues of vehicles trapped in the water. In addition, in the case of cities such as Valencia, it has caused damage and destruction in some fallas that were in the last night of plantà.