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.

Emergency services recovered the body on Friday of the woman who disappeared on Wednesday after falling into the river while trying to save her dog in Sayalonga (Málaga). The woman fell into the water while walking with a friend during the storm. LeonardoIt was the same friend who raised the alarm. The body was found about 1,000 meters from where the woman was last seen before falling into the Turvilla River.

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.

Since early this morning, rescue teams continued the search for two people who were still missing and were finally found dead after the torrential downpours that hit the southern Peninsula. In the Guadalbarcar stream, in the town of Constantina, they found the lifeless body of a man, who they confirmed was the husband of the woman found dead in the same area on Tuesday afternoon. The couple, in their seventies, were inside an all-terrain vehicle crossing the stream when the sudden rise in water surprised them.