Volunteers clean up mud after flooding in Paiporta, in the Valencia region of Spain, on November 5. EMILIO MORENATTI/AP/SIPA
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Decryption Episodes of torrential rain, like the one that hit Spain, will multiply and intensify with rising temperatures.
In the collective imagination, climate change is, quite logically, associated with heatwaves and droughts, which are destined to become both more frequent and more severe. But the deadly floods which have just hit Spain, causing the death of at least 217 people, provide a violent glimpse of the other, more unknown face of current warming: the intensification of episodes of torrential rain.
This phenomenon can…
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