Is it normal for a storm like the one that has been hitting Spain for a week to last so long? No, the current situation, an episode of these characteristics as long as the one that especially shakes the Mediterranean area, with more than 200 deaths so far and million-dollar damage, is “exceptional”, both in the duration and intensity of the rainfall recorded. .
This was indicated by the spokesperson for the Spanish State Meteorological Agency (Aemet), Rubén del Campo; For now, there have been between seven and eight days of presence in the peninsular territory, causing intense storms in different areas, from an isolated depression at high levels of the atmosphere, which in Spain is known as dana.
“There will be time to technically analyze the particular characteristics of this dana,” and the causes that led to its duration being “so long and causing so much rain,” he continued.
Also for his part, meteorologist Francisco Martín, from Meteored, explained that this storm is having “a very long duration and is not normal.”
It has been almost fixed in the eastern part of the peninsula for many days, very active, and has also found itself “with first-class gasoline” which is the Mediterranean, which, being so warm, acts “as a trigger mechanism, like a match,” he added.
It is an intense, very broad, extensive phenomenon that “occupies a tremendous portion of the Iberian Peninsula,” and whose duration “is not normal,” nor is it normal for it to move “so little.”
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Meteorologists warn that the storm is still in its last phase
He insisted on its exceptional factors of intensity, duration and stagnation, in addition to being a dynamically very active dana.
All of this, he declared, represents “a perfect cocktail, with the fundamental ingredients to generate strong storms on the surface.”
He explained that the waters surrounding the peninsula, especially the Mediterranean, at this time of year are “like an open gasoline can.”
“We still have to continue maintaining alert although the damage is in its final phase of weakening,” he concluded.
With information from EFE
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