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SPAIN – Unrecognizable. This is how we can describe the south-east of Spain seen from space. Occurring on the night of Tuesday October 29 to Wednesday October 30, major floods devastated the Valencia region, leaving at least 92 dead and dozens missing. And the episode is not yet over, warned this Thursday the King of Spain Felipe VI and that the National Meteorological Agency (Aemet) issued a “red alert” (highest risk) for the province of Castellón.
While videos of cars swept away by floodwaters and stacked on top of each other spread on social networks, other images showing the Valencia region seen from the sky are starting to circulate, as you can see in our video at the top of the article. Taken using NASA's Landsat satellite, we can see this area before and after the floods, demonstrating the violence of the torrents of water that fell in the region.
Search operations for victims continue Thursday in southeastern Spain, reeling from the worst flooding in more than 50 years in the country. Nearly a thousand soldiers are deployed on the ground, mainly in the Valencia region, alongside firefighters, police and rescue workers who are seeking to locate possible survivors and are working to clear the disaster areas.
A year of precipitation in a few hours
The latest report communicated by the authorities shows 95 deaths, including 92 in the community of Valencia, the hardest hit. Two other deaths were recorded in the neighboring region of Castile-La Mancha, and a third in Andalusia.
According to the Aemet meteorological agency, more than 300 liters of water per square meter fell overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday in several towns in the Valencia region, with a peak of 491 liters in the small village of Chiva. It is the equivalent of “ of a year of precipitation »she clarified.
The Valencia region and the Spanish Mediterranean coast in general regularly experience, in autumn, the phenomenon known as “the cold drop » (the “ cold drop »), an isolated high-altitude depression that causes sudden and extremely heavy rain, sometimes for several days.
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