More than 300 accidents in Galiciaat least one injured in Pontevedra by a fallen tree, and another in Bizkaia are part of the impact of the Béatrice storm, which hits the country with wind, rain and waves of 8 meters.
The arrival this weekend in the Peninsula of the intense storm Béatrice, the second of the season, immediately after Armandput on a weather alert this Sunday community sweets from the north and north-western half of the country by winds of over 110 kilometers per hour and heavy rains.
In addition to Galiciain orange, for rains with accumulations of over 40 liters per square meter, together with strong winds and storm surges, others four regions they are alert to the same level of risk due to one or more of the above circumstances.
is approx Asturias, Cantabria, Castilla y León and La Rioja, according to the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) on its website. To these are added, albeit in yellow, with a slightly lower risk, seven other communities on alert: Aragon, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia, Extremadura, Madrid, Navarre and the Basque Country.
In the last few hours, according to Aemet’s data, there have been very strong gusts in various parts of the north of the countryup to 132 kilometers and 131 kilometers per hour respectively at Valdezcaray (La Rioja) and Cap de Vaquèira (Lleida) stations, and 76 kilometers per hour at Vitoria airport, among others.
As for the rainthe accumulations in Galicia stand out: for example, 69 liters per square meter at the O Rosal station (Pontevedra), 50.6 liters in the municipality of Rois or 43.3 liters per square meter in Santiago de Compostela, both in Coruna.
112 are registered in the Galician community 331 accidentsand one person was injured when a tree fell on the car in which he was traveling in Mondariz (Pontevedra), also causing the road to be cut off during the intervention of the emergency services.
Vizcan County of the incarnations It is the most affected area in the Basque Country by the strong gusts of wind that blow and caused trees and branches to fall on several roads in Bizkaia -also in the Gipuzkoa- areas.
One of the major incidents occurred in Purelyin the same region of Biscay, where, due to the strong wind, a tree fell on the BI-630 road on a vehicle with occupants inside, who were not injured.
in Barakaldo, a man was injured when a container hit him which was moved by the wind to Anaitasuna Street in the city of Biscayan, for which it had to be transferred to Cruces Hospital.
On the other hand, nine flights were diverted to Bilbao airport from strong wind; two of them, coming from Madrid with scheduled landing in Bilbao, returned to the starting point and three from Palma, London and Bristol, among others, were diverted to Barcelona airport.
Likewise, gusts of wind prevented the flight on which the Princess of Letters Award 2022playwright Juan Mayorga, arrived in Asturias and was forced to return to Madrid, his starting point.
Mayorga was the first to receive one of the eight Princess Awardswhich will be delivered in Oviedo next Friday under the presidency of the King and Queen and in the presence of Princess Leonor and Infanta Sofía.
But not only the north is hit by the storm; in the case of Madridthe intense rains will accumulate, according to Aemet’s forecasts, up to 40 liters in twelve hours in the mountains, and the wind will blow with intensity up to 80 kilometers per hour, especially at the summit.
They are also expected in Aragon winds exceeding 100 kilometers per hourand also in Cantabria, up to 110 kilometers per hour, mainly at high altitudes in the center and in the Villaverde valley.
in Castile and Leon, the winds will blow very strongly in the Burgos mountain range and can reach up to 110 kilometers per hour; rainfall will accumulate up to 40 liters per square meter in twelve hours in the central system of Ávila and Salamanca.
In Castilla-La Mancha the rains will accumulate up to 40 liters per square meter in Toledo and the gusts will reach up to 80 kilometers per hour in areas such as Parameras de Molina (Guadalajara).
