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.

Severe flooding across South and Southeast Asia has already claimed the lives of at least 1,332 people, mostly in Indonesia and Sri Lanka. Authorities in the four affected countries, including Thailand and Malaysia, are continuing their efforts to rescue trapped citizens, search for bodies buried in mud, and restore power and communications as floodwaters begin to recede.

Three weeks after the torrential rains that devastated the Baix Ebre and Montsià regions, Lluís Baiges still vividly remembers his farm transformed into a mud pit, littered with plant debris, greenhouse plastic sheeting, and collapsed metal structures. "We need two weeks of continuous work and more than forty people to try to recover the quarry that the water didn't wash away," he explains. In the greenhouses of Cultidelta—the family business he co-manages with his brother, specializing in the cultivation of native Mediterranean plants and horticultural and vegetable production—the mud marks are still visible. "The water came in like a tide and flooded some 60,000 square meters of greenhouses to a height of 80 cm. A week later, there was still stagnant water and trays of seedlings floating," he adds. The current swept away a significant portion of the crops. Among the plants they've been able to salvage, very few are usable for sale. "Most have been damaged by the mud itself, and those that haven't rotted from the excess moisture," he laments. "We're still in the process of assessing the damage, which is difficult to quantify, but I think we can estimate losses of around half a million euros, if we take into account the additional costs of repairing the damage, the loss of product, and the temporary halt in sales," he says.

"We looked at each other and understood everything: the only solution left was for the entire family to leave their home permanently." This is how the mayor of Alcanar, Joan Roig, describes the moment he found Dídac Pla, his wife, and their two daughters up to their waists in mud the very night of the floods. Alice The storm had just descended with great violence on this town in Montsià and other nearby towns such as Godall, Santa Bárbara, la Ràpita, Ulldecona, and Tortosa. In some of these municipalities, rainfall exceeded 250 liters per square meter, and this was the final straw: after Pla and his family have been affected by four floods in the last seven years, they are one step away from becoming the first climate refugees in Catalonia.

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.

Suddenly, the phone emits a shrill sound, to which we were previously unfamiliar, and a text from the Generalitat Civil Protection appears, often accompanied by a danger signal with an exclamation point. The content of the message varies depending on the emergency: there is a fire nearby and you must stay indoors; downpours are forecast and it is recommended to avoid outdoor activities; there has been an accident that could cause a chemical cloud… This is the ES-Alert alert, which sends pop-up messages to all mobile phones within an area. It was recently sent to the vast majority of the Catalan population (37 of the 43 regions) due to the torrential rains in mid-July.

The Generalitat (Catalan Government) has decided to install three new weather radars in the Alt Pyrenees to anticipate, in advance, potential flooding at campsites in this area. This is one of the main measures outlined in the new decree law that the Government is expected to approve this Tuesday. It aims to assess the flood risk of each campsite and the measures they must take to ensure protection in the event of bad weather or flash floods.

The investigation teams continue working this Wednesday to find some of the 170 people who remain missing after the Severe flooding last weekend in Texas, which left at least 119 dead, including many children. In addition to the 119 people killed in Texas, the floods also killed three more in the neighboring state of New Mexico. Mystic, a Christian summer camp for girls built on the banks of the river. A total of 27 people from the camp, including girls and counselors, died in the flooding, according to Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha. Historic floods this July in Texas.

The Christian girls' camp Camp Mystic, affected by the floods caused by the flash flood of the Guadalupe River in Texas, in the United States, has confirmed this Monday that at least 27 girls and counselors are among the victims. Ten children and a counselor are still missing. 8 consider The deadliest floods in the United States in the last hundred years.

The death toll from the flooding caused by the flash flooding of the Guadalupe River in Texas, United States, continues to rise, reaching at least 82 people, according to the latest official report Sunday night. Among the fatalities are 28 children, as detailed in a press conference by Larry Leitha, the sheriff of Kerr County, one of the hardest hit counties. He detailed that ten girls and a counselor from Camp Mystic summer camp are still missing.

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.

Chaos in Catalan mobility due to torrential rains that have affected a good part of the territory since early morning. The alert that yesterday at midnight already caused restrictions in nine regions of Tarragona has spread rapidly this morning, as has the rain, which has flooded motorways, streets and train tracks as it passes through Baix Llobregat and has caused serious incidents on the C-32, on the Cercanías and at El Prat airport.