This Sunday, Civil Protection deactivated the alert of the Inuncat plan due to the risk of flooding due to intense rains, precipitation that has left the swamps of the interior basins of Catalonia, in a drought episode, at 18.13 percent of their total capacity.
Civil Protection reports in a statement that weather predictions indicate that rains are not expected to exceed one hundred liters per square meter in twenty-four hours, a limit that they did exceed yesterday and Friday in Espot and Alins, both in the Pyrenees of Lleida.
This organization highlights that in the last few hours, the 112 telephone number has not received calls for important incidents caused by the rains.
The weather forecasts indicate that the rain today will mainly affect the regions of Girona and central Catalonia, but with a lower intensity than that recorded yesterday.
Tomorrow, Monday, the rains could be intense again. They will begin in the Ebro regions and move throughout the day towards the central coastal strip.
The rainfall of recent days has caused the reservoirs in Catalonia’s internal account to add 125.87 cubic hectometers of water this Sunday, which represents 18.13 percent of their total capacity, which is 694.45 cubic hectometers. .
A year ago, on the same date as today, these swamps stored 175.63 hectometres, which was 25.29 percent of their capacity. The average amount of water impounded in them in the last five years has been 486.04 hectometres, and in the last ten, 528.92.
The reservoirs of the Ter-Llobregat supply system basin (which supplies some five million people in Barcelona and one hundred more municipalities in its metropolitan crown) are at 18.99 percent this Sunday, with 116.21 cubic hectometers dammed. .
The Sau swamp is still the most affected by the drought, with 4.30 cubic hectometres (2.60%). The Baells one stores 27.95 hectometers (25.54%); that of Susqueda, 59.89 (25.70%); La Llosa del Cavall, 16.42 (20.52%); and that of Sant Ponç, 7.64 (31.35%).
