"There was nothing. What you'd find in a sports hall. I don't know if they expected people to sleep lying on the basketball court." Carles Sagués, spokesperson for Badalona Acoge, criticizes the meager resources the city deployed Sunday night to provide shelter for the homeless as temperatures dropped. The City Council opened the doors of the La Colina pavilion, but there were no beds or blankets, the activist explains. There was also no option to use the showers, nor were residents allowed to bring their own sleeping mats or bags "due to the possibility of contagion," the council argued, according to Sagués. The group of activists who visited the space even felt uneasy—"we almost didn't dare," Sagués admits—about informing the people still living in a settlement under a bridge on the C-31 highway, approximately an hour's walk from the La Colina pavilion, about this option. since they were evicted from the old B9 school More than two weeks ago.

The weather will undergo a radical change in the coming days. The arrival of a mass of very cold air of Arctic origin will cause temperatures to plummet throughout the week. Each day the mercury will drop further, and by midweek, thermometers will register between 5 and 10 degrees lower than usual for this time of year. This cold, wintry weather has arrived earlier than usual this year, with more than a month still to go before winter officially begins. Aemet (the Spanish State Meteorological Agency) has already issued an advisory warning of this cold spell.

Late frosts are not a rare phenomenon, but the recent cold snap has been truly remarkable. Out of the 153 Meteocat stations which have over ten years of data, 124 have broken their record for the month of April. Even looking at older records, the precedents for such low temperatures in the fourth month of the year are scarce.